Re: VAX software available for download

From: Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski (m_roguski_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/27/05 

Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:02:37 +0200

[...]
> From this we got the Gnu Public Virus and the idea that there is
> no inherent value in programs and so they can be given away at
> will.
[...]

Allow me to put my two cents here. I disagree, I neither tolerate
software piracy (hay, I don't even have Windows, Office, Photoshop
etc...) on my PC computers. But GNU GPL did actually made a
difference, and software piracy existed long before Stallman, Torvalds,
Cox or <insert your favourite target here>. And the idea of GPL is not
that software can be "given away at will", but that anyone can develop
software based on your ideas (providing that he will give you credit and
grant rights for others to do the same with his ideas)...

Rambo