Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject	Re: A question about having a coauthor in a program
Date	2020-06-19 21:33 +0100
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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 it's 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 it's 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.

-- 
Ben.

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