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
