On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 15:19 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Hikaru Amano wrote: > > On 2/27/07, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Free software is great, but it has to be voluntary. Forcing all > >> software to be free is wrong. > >> > > > > They didnt force u to make your fully owned software free .. But if > > you choose to use their code to make your software, you have to follow > > their rules .. if your software 100% owned by you .. nobody forcing > > you to opensource it ... > > > > You've lost the thread. I'm not against the GPL (I've released GPL'ed > software), I am against abolishing copyright (and thus placing all > software and media in the public domain). Then you lost the thread, we were talking about the GPL and the kernel, and how following the rules set by kernel devs. is the right thing. The secondary thread, was on the nature of Intellectual Property, not about abolishing it. Simo. -- Simo Sorce <ssorce@xxxxxxxxxx> Sr Software Engineer Base Operating Systems Red Hat Inc. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list