Daemon News: The GPL vs. Capitalism Jun 5, 1999, 23 :15 UTC (42 Talkback[s]) (6556 reads) (Other stories by Pedro F. Giffuni)
"... the Restrictively Unrestrictive: The GPL License in Software
Development article that appeared on the Daemon News previously. While
this article clearly had a good intent and, as stated, reflected only the
personal views of one BSD developer, it was clear to me that it didn't go
far enough in explaining the evilness of the GPL license."
"The GPL license offers a very beautiful dream, free, unrestricted
access to software for the people of the world. No doubt this would be
great, free technology for people in the third world countries (including
me) and no more gigantic monopolistic companies telling you where to go
today. I also believed in that dream..."
"I personally think that Richard Stallman is a good person but he is
confused..."
"when I saw it and it was clear to me what people that adopted the GPL
were doing to the other people. I was aghast. It was not communism or
socialism, this was simply and plainly anticapitalism..."
"If you don't want money from your code, that's OK, but by releasing
software under the GPL you are forcing other software writers to use the
same poverty license even if they add significant features to your code."
