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The war of words is raging on FLORA Community WEB. Russell McOrmond writes: "Some of us who reject the concepts of Information Ownership do not consider copyright to be an 'Honest buck', but a form of 'Getting something for nothing'. If you want clarification, please see a Recent posting of my own where I suggest that Copyright is about as "honest" as making a living on welfare. One can, and many do (I am an example), make a real "Honest Buck" using/supporting/developing Free Software. "Please don't confuse Free Software and Open Source as the two are not the same. Troy mentioned the BSD licence as if it were an equivalent form of 'Free Software' as the GNU licence. The BSD licence does not guaruntee that derivative works do not have to carry the same freedoms as the original work, which allows for the same theft of information that propriatary licences do. "BSD is, on the other hand, a very legitimate form of Open Source for those interested in this "middle ground". "I personally see Open Source/LGPL is a sort of "Halfway house for information thieves".  
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