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Submission + - Bill Gates: "the GPL, which we disagree with&# (arstechnica.com) 2

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Dionysius, God of Wine, writes: ""There's free software and then there's open source," he suggested, noting that Microsoft gives away its software in developing countries. With open source software, on the other hand, "there is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with." Open source, he said, creates a license "so that nobody can ever improve the software," he claimed, bemoaning the squandered opportunity for jobs and business. (Yes, Linux fans, we're aware of how distorted this definition is.) He went back to the analogy of pharmaceuticals: "I think if you invent drugs, you should be able to charge for them," he said, adding with a shrug: "That may seem radical."

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/04/23/bill-gates-the-gpl-which-we-disagree-with"
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  • ...there is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with.

    ...I could not care less with what you agree or not.

    Open source, he said, creates a license "so that nobody can ever improve the software,"

    May I introduce myself? I am nobody. Tanuki64 is only my nick here. I must be nobody since I constantly improve open source/GPL software. Most of my private and professional project would not exist without open source software.

    bemoaning the squandered opportunity for jobs and business.

    You are right here.

  • Open source, he said, creates a license "so that nobody can ever improve the software,"


    Did he say this with a straight face?

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