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.