[ale] Life on the Other Side

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, 2016-10-10 at 14:30 -0400, Rev. Johnny Healey wrote:
> > > I think it would go against the spirit of the GPL to have a clause
limiting what end users can do with the software. The GPL is NOT an
EULA.

I see your point. But that is already exactly what the GPL does:
prohibits end users from closing the code and blocking others they
distribute to from enjoying the same freedoms. I was being certainly
snarky but do see a validity in requiring a certain degree of openness
to allow porting a codebase to a new platform. I don't want to see Mac
fanboys supporting the walled garden of hardware, and now software,
with their cash while relying on GPL tools to make things work. I like
the idea of "you paid the devil for lunch so shut up and eat".

<so not a mac fanboy - says the guy whose tag is LINUX1>
> > 
> -Johnny

> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Jim Kinney > > <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm wondering if there's a GPL v. 3.1 with a clause like "this can't be run on a system that relies on closed source, proprietary software for it's basic operation".

> > I guess the sledgehammer wielding savior of the servants of the computer overlords has, as Orwell made plain, become "more equal" and now rules the animal farm.


> > > > On Oct 10, 2016 9:48 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Wow.  It's tough out there.> > > 
> > > https://medium.com/@Pier/why-i-hate-ios-as-a-developer-459c182e8a72#.726x28bb7
> > > 
> > > -- CHS
> > > 


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