Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program

From	Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program
Date	2020-06-22 06:22 -0700
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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:

> Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Most of the time you are either writing code for a paid project, in which
>> case it is confidential, or you are writing code as a public service,
>> in which case it ought to be made public domain.  However Richard Stallman
>> decided that it was his life's mission to destroy Microsoft, and started
>> the viral licence craze.
>
> Interesting that you use a pejorative term for it (two, in fact).  RMS's
> "life mission" was established by the GNU Manifesto, published six
> months before Microsoft released Window v1 (which few people used and
> even fewer remember) so I would be surprised if Microsoft was even on
> his radar in the spring of 1985.
>
> I doubt very much that we'd have the viable ecosystem of free software
> we have today had it not been for the stipulations of GPL, so its a
> craze I am glad he started.
>
>> In my view it has no point unless you agree
>> with Stallman's political mission.
>
> All missions are political.  Maybe you stress that its a political
> mission in the hope of tainting his mission to promote software freedom
> with his other political views.  Or maybe you are just using political
> as the broad pejorative it has become in some circles.

Thank you for writing this.

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  Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-06-18 04:07 -0700
    Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-06-18 14:40 +0000
      Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2020-06-19 08:46 +0200
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        Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-06-19 09:23 -0700
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            Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-06-19 21:19 +0000
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                Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2020-06-22 10:42 -0700
                Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2020-06-22 19:17 +0000
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