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Petrus on GPL
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RE: Theo Responds to License Modification (mod 0/12) by Petrus (202.7.176.130) on Thu Sep 6 01:30:54 2007 (GMT)

From a lot of what I've seen, the belief that exists in the minds of most GPL zealots (and I'm also guessing Eben Moglen himself, privately if not publically) is that the GPL is the only license with the inherent right to exist at all. These people also feel that they have a moral duty to relicense everything possible under the GPL.

I really worry about how the BSDs and the BSD license can survive, since I've seen a lot of sentiment expressed by GPL advocates that suggests that they would like to see it erradicated entirely. I used to read Slashdot myself a lot, but recently it's become a lot more difficult to, because I am honestly caused an enormous amount of emotional pain by what seems to be the predominant attitude among GPL advocates and Linux users. They seem to be dominated by fear, anger, bitterness, and a desire to utterly destroy anything which deviates in any way from the dictates of Richard Stallman. It's actually caused me to feel that I need to distance myself from using open source in general, and I get the feeling that the recent resurgence of the FSF, and the release of the GPL 3 has caused a lot of other people to feel the same way; I don't think I'm the only one.

The one thing I truly wish I had the technical knowledge to do is write another C compiler, because then from what I've read it would be possible for a form of open source UNIX to exist that could be genuinely divorced from the FSF entirely. Unfortunately however, I don't...I wouldn't even know where to begin...and so the only real option for someone who feels as strongly opposed to the FSF as I do is to walk away from using open source in general.

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http://themes.freecode.com/articles/response-to-troll-tech-on-qt-kde-and-the-qpl#comment-5548