Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Rob Thorpe
Date : Tue Aug 30 2005 12:53 pm

Randy Howard wrote:
> Rob Thorpe wrote
> (in article
> <1125080872.729142.248260@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):
>
> > Chris Sonnack wrote:
> >> Scott Moore writes:
> >>
> >>> Bummer that the proletariats here don't want to be freed from their
> >>> chains.
> >>
> >> If, by chains, we mean that I can pay for software and expect the
> >> company to stand behind it (maintain it, fix bugs, provide updates)
> >> and be responsible for it, you're damn right!
> >
> > If you have free software then you can pay a support company to do
> > that, plus you have the freedom to change and alter the software.
>
> If that is important to you, then by all means do it.
>
> I do not feel that every piece of software I come in contact
> with needs to be modified (although I know of some that are in
> great need of it).

So if you don't modify it you're in exactly the same position you were
in before.  You still have support.

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