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Refalm:

quote:Leaders of the New Democrat Coalition attempt to outlaw GPL. A call to sign off on explicit rejection of "licenses that would prevent or discourage commercial adoption of promising cyber security technologies developed through federal R & D." has been issued by Adam Smith, Congressman for the Ninth District in the State of Washington... (

emh:
I don't think this is actually talking about outlawing GPL.  Just trying to give reasons (flawed ones at that) why the government shouldn't use GPL software.

KernelPanic:

quote:Originally posted by Ex Eleven / b0b 2.1:
My letter to Jim:
Why are you yrying to outlaw the GPL, trying to allow companys to take code from it? Why is it right. A peice of OpenSource code is a "Work of Art" and should be considered as one. If you where a painter and you made an amazing picture. And somebody took a copy from you without your permission and sold them making Millions, Would you be happy. Or if you where writing a program for years and then Microsoft took your code and sold it off making Millions, would you be happy? Think about what you are trying to do!
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You really need to run your writings through a spellchecker  

flap:
And learn the difference between "where" and "were". And its/it's for that matter. Incidentally Tux, that should be "its" in your signature.

[ October 26, 2002: Message edited by: flap ]

Crunchy(Cracked)Butter:
Umm there is already a topic being discussed with the exact same link as well, and its on this forum!

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