On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 13:11, Rick Taylor wrote: > On Sunday 19 December 2004 08:03 am, Marek Peteraj wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 04:12, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > If you really > > > object to this then you should not be writing free software. > > > > This won't solve anything. The goal should be to find a solution which > > would allow for financial compensation to original authors, however i > > don't see this happening until linux becomes mainstream(i.e. open source > > driving the world of software) simply because it would need a complete > > overhaul of copyright law and a worldwide adoption of such > > solution/mechanism. > > There will always be folk that simply want to write applications and sell > them. There has to be room for both. Different folks support different > ideologies. Maybe there's a better time to convince folk that yours is the > only solution? Forget it.
