On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 21:20:44 -0500, "Josh Paetzel" <josh at tcbug.org> said: > > It's not about whether I open source > what I'm doing or not, right now today what I'm working on gets open > sourced, but I have the option to close the source if I need to. The > GPL, and software based upon it takes away that choice. The GPL is not taking anything away from you; you're just not being granted something. Taking away and not giving are two different things. > > I really do think you've missed out on how badly Stallman wants > commercial software in any form to go away, and for a return to the > heady days of his youth when business didn't care about software and > it was all just fun and games. This argument is wrong. It's proprietary software not commercial software that Stallman's against.