20 Feb
2006
20 Feb
'06
6:42 p.m.
On Mon February 20 2006 17:13, Lee Revell wrote:
The point is, the developer of a piece of software has
the
right to release it under any license they choose. It's not
OK to violate the license (whether open source or proprietary)
just because you disagree with it.
They have the legal right, thanks to a century of lobbying by
people who had too much money to begin with, but the idea that
they have the moral right is purely your opinion. Despite
making my living writing and oftentimes selling software, I
don't share that opinion.
If you don't like it write your own app.
I think that rather than writing my own music app from scratch,
I'll just keep encouraging people to embrace free software.
So far this approach has gotten me and everyone else an operating
system and a few thousand applications to play with, despite 20
years of hearing that exact same line from copyright zealots....
the right compositional tool will follow eventually. Maybe I'll
even get my own code in it, if it's written in some other
language than C.
Rob