[linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do *you* stand?

[fsmith]

Hi Lee you saved me the trouble of witting on this,
It's probable an M$ windup!

Cheers
Bob




Lee Revell wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 13:01 -0800, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
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>>But please, IMO, don't pay for any non-open source software. There are
>>lots of excellent p2p tools you can use to get the software you need. 
>>Please don't support makers of non-open source software. 
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>What?!?!?  Are you serious?  This is terrible advice.  Just because we
>don't like their business model does not give us the right to steal from
>them.
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>How can we expect people to abide by the GPL if we don't respect their
>licensing terms?  Stealing proprietary software is exactly as immoral as
>proprietary vendors ripping off GPL'ed code.
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>Lee
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