If you haven’t seen the recent claims from the fraudulent law firms of Daniel Wallace and Maureen O’Gara it is advised that you check out Slashdot and read the article.

A note: The following is considered a rant of sorts, and may include indecent language and sexual/racial/other slurs that may offend members of my audience but because of my firm believe in no censorship I will keep the slurs and vulgarity in this post.

Well they claim that the GPL license is unfairly setting a price on GPL’ed software and that this hurts big business. They say that the FSF should remove the GPL and LGPL from its acceptable open source licenses. They claim that the price that the GPL sets is just ‘unfair’ for competition and is undercutting big businesses.

GPL is nothing more than a price fixing scheme designed to drive software vendors out of business

said Maureen O’Gara. What is this stupid bitch babbling about? So we are supposed to believe that the GPL is evil, eh? Well I think we should believe that this stupid bitch is evil. She for one should have her legal license revoked and then sued by the FSF, whom she is attempting to sue for the GPL, for slander. I would like to see the book thrown at this lousy excuse of a human.

The GPL is a license, an open source license that requires any works derived from the works that are released under the GPL to be released under the GPL. The GPL requires the developer and distributor of the program that is released under it to also provide the source code for free to anyone and everyone who may want it. This license is seen as communistic and evil by Bill Gates and others in Microsoft, but in fact their EULA is even more evil then the GPL, the EULA was designed to remove the user’s rights, the GPL was designed to give the rights to the people.

The EULA is closer to something of a dictatorship, such as Saddam Hussein, Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, or Hitler since all these governments were by the select few, and for the select few. The GPL gives the power to the people, demos in Greek, and when the people have the power then you have a democracy, not a communism, since in communism the people aren’t allowed to participate in the government. It is technically illegal for one to take a CD of Windows XP Pro and a valid CD key that one owns and create a Windows LiveCD (or DVD) similar to a Knopix, or Gentoo LiveCD. Why? because the EULA forbids it by punishment of the law. The EULA is the real evil since it restricts the user’s rights. The GPL only says that you can’t claim the program, or any of it’s code as your own if you didn’t write it, and therefore if you include any of the program’s code into a application of your own, you new code must fall under the GPL because of the use of the GPLed code. You don’t like the rules? Then write your own program from scratch and then release it under any license that you choose. The GPL was never intended for profit of the code released under it.

What is wrong with the GPL? Really why does big business have problems with it? I mean, how can a bunch of amateurs really compete with a large corporate conglomerate such as Microsoft or IBM? Or do companies such as SCO want to use GPLed code but not release the product under the GPL out of greed? No one can compete with free eh? Then why did Novell buy Suse Linux? Novell is now using and supporting all open source software, and most of its old proprietary software has gone away. I believe that they use the GPL as their open source license. If a company is making money from a product that is also available on the internet for free then why is this lawsuit even close to being valid? I have just disproved their case.

The lawyers also dare to accuse groklaw of some things that are not true at all.
Groklaw’s article

-John Havlik

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