Re: ``Nothing like a monopoly to get investors to cheer you

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

Brett wrote:

>Absolutely. GPLed software takes away -- by competing unfairly with commercial
>software. But it doesn't give back by allowing creative individuals to build
>on it. The effect (as intended by Richard Stallman) is to undermine commercial
>endeavors and hence creativity.

Well, you may think that inhibition of creativity is an end result of
people adopting the GPL.  I agree with you to some extent, although I am
not convinced the BSD license is really all that much better.

However, I don't think "inhibiting creativity" is one of Stallman's goals.
He thinks he's making it easier for people be creative.



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