Re: Remote access to my machine

From: Takeshi (do.not.spam.me_at_work.com)
Date: 05/23/04

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    jayjwa wrote:

    > On 2004-05-21, Takeshi <do.not.spam.me@work.com> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>I want the user to login on my machine
    >>and work on code with intellectual property rights (without being able
    >>to copy the files back onto his machine).
    >
    >
    >
    > Pet peeve #42: I love when people take open source OS/tools/development and
    > then use it to produce software that is closed source or copyrighted as can
    > be- nothing like giving back to the community! Free software! (as long it's
    > not *my* code that we're talking about...)
    >
    >
    >
    >

    Just so that you know. My company regularly makes financial
    contributions to the FSF and various OS software like PostgreSQL.
    Besides, our Linux platform is *purchased* from Redhat (who I believe
    give something back to the comunity). I have also personally contributed
    code changes and bugfixes to a number of OS software I have used in the
    past.

    Personally, I think the GPL is too restrictive and too left wing (almost
    communist tendencies), and I try to avoid it whenever I can. We can't
    all live in a barter system. However, I do believe in giving credit
    where credit is due, and we make regular financial contributions to any
    lesser GPL software we use - it is only fair to compensate people for
    the work they have done. Doing otherwise would be stealing.

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