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Re: Documentation Standards was Re: [ox-en] UserLinux




[I think RMAIL is screwing up the attributions when replying to
PGP-signed messages - if so, my apologies to anyone mis-quoted!]

Niall wrote:

 However, software freedom to me includes 
the right to commercialise if that's better for the software - 

You can sell GPL software.
People do so.
People make good money doing so.
They don't seem to set up multi-national corporations on the back of it, though.

injection of capital lets you do innovation quite impossible without 
a government grant under the GPL 

Umm.

- and most governments quite rightly 
won't put public money towards GPL development, only BSD/MIT etc.

Having been in meetings where Governments try to work this out, the
representatives of Large Corporations lobby to prevent Government using
GPL. 

 I  also don't see why business, the lifeblood of our society, 

*Ahem*. Tell that to <pick your favourite example>the people of
Bhopal</pick>

The concept that business is the lifeblood of society is another of the
Great Philosophical Mistakes...

should be 
denied the ability to reuse free software just like anyone else

Guess what? They *aren't* denied the ability to re-use it. They *are*
denied the ability to enclose it. 

[snippety-chop]

cheers, rich.

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