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23 Dec 2025 01:18:49 EST (-0500)
  Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous  
From: clipka
Date: 28 Jan 2009 16:00:00
Message: <web.4980c74413a704f8d52c367a0@news.povray.org>
Hmm... didn't I mention not too long ago that the FSF is going a bit overboard?
(And I hadn't even heard of this one then.)

Good to know I'm not the only retard who thinks this way...

Anyway, introducing technical barriers in GPL'ed code is a bit nonsensical:
Everyone can create a version of it with these checks "amputated". Everyone
actually explicitly has a to do so.

What's next? Trying to put this technical barrier under cover of laws
prohibiting or restricting circumvention?


What I see convinces me even more that the FSF's goal is to *force* all software
authors to give away their software for free, because for some weird reason they
think there is a higher moral right to free software.

I must correct myself: This is not so much a "political" thing, as I had claimed
earlier, but a "religious" one.

All your codebase are belong to us.


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