Re: [tlug] [OT] Say _no_ to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

[Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@example.com>]

On 4 juil. 07, at 09:43, Darren Cook wrote:

> There are plenty out there, including a lot of university students who
> are writing quality code but wasting half the effort by releasing as
> GPL. I had an email discussion with a free software advocate recently
> who declared my use of liberal-open-source-license code in a  
> commercial
> environment was stealing.

How do you convince developers that giving others the right to close  
the code they took so much time to write is a benefit ?

And I did not declare that use of "liberal-open-source-license code"  
was stealing, it is closing the code and/or not contributing back  
that is stealing.

And yes, I believe that the private ownership of surplus value  
creating mechanisms is not a social good.

For total disclosure though, I have just created such a surplus value  
creating thing: I just incorporated, here, in Takamatsu, and I can  
tell you that fair redistribution of the surplus value I'm intending  
to create _is_ my aim.

Jean-Christophe Helary