[Gllug] Priracy.

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 15:00, David Damerell wrote:
> On , 4 Mar 2003, John Hearns wrote:
> >My own take on this discussion is that Linux/GNU software users should
> >never be seen to, or even appear to be condoning or encouraging software
> >piracy (please, let's not debate the exact meanings etc of that word).
> 
> If you want to stop people advocating software sharing, why not start
> with Richard Stallman?

Please read carefully what I posted.

I do not believe that Richard Stallman advocates software 'sharing' of
licensed software. Indeed, given that he famously says that he never
uses non-free software I doubt he would bother copying it. I can see the
headlines in The Sun now "Free software advocate in MS Office Shame".
RMS wouldn't even read the source code to non-free Unix, in case there
could be a case brought for plagiarism.
(Someone please provide a link to this story - I'm not 100% sure it was
Unix source code)

Free software has got where it has today by better people than me
advocating it and spending time to defend it.

I will repeat my point - confusing free software and a 'free for all' to
copy software which has been licensed to explicitly forbid copying does
our cause no good.


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