Firefox market share bounces back 6717
Google doesn't use Linux for their products? Are you really trying to claim that?
No, Stallman (and others using the GPL for their code) say, "Here, take this code and change it however you like, you don't need to keep it the way we created it. If you use it as a basis for your code, though, you'll need to share it with others like we did. Of course, you can study and learn from it, and even reimplement it without any strings at all."
Sure, just about any program does that.
Well, no brilliance is so far in evidence from you, but I suppose miracles happen sometimes.
If they are, in fact, *your* programs, then bully for you.
Well, you can't. Of course, no one's forcing you to use code licensed under the GPL as the basis for your brilliant program, either, you know.
You could study a GPL PNG library and reimplement it, and be free and clear. Go for it.
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Lin¿nut wrote on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:30:46 -0600 Because BMP is far more to their liking, of course...
Or, you could 'substantially reward' some commercial programmer for *their* brilliance and license some commercial PNG code. Why don't you? This is the business model you profess to love, why not stick to it? Or is it just that you want something for nothing?
OK, that is more clear to me. I would buttert, however, that the *payment* you make for GPL software is agreeing to abide by the license...
-- Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (313) 227-2317
On July 4, 1951, the Madison, Wisconsin Capital-Times circulated a pebreastion composed entirely of quotes from the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. Thanks to the Red Scare, only one person out of 112 signed it; some called the FBI to investigate the 'subversive' pebreastion.