From: Rasputin <rasputin@...>
Date: 2003-07-10T06:19:11+09:00
Subject: Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby.

* Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@math.umd.edu> [0705 21:05]:
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> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:52:52AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
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> > OK, let me back up a little.
> > 
> > Are you honestly saying that you don't understand
> > why people don't like the GPL?
> 
> I can't imagine how I gave you that impression.
> 
> I am saying that many of those people have a deep misunderstanding of the 
> GPL.
> 
> I know that there are many people who do understand the GPL and have good 
> reasons not to like it.  I understand these reasons and this is not what I 
> have been talking about.  The fact that certain people might have reasons 
> not to like the GPL does not make the GPL viral.  It simply makes it a 
> license that some people don't like.
> 
> What I have been arguing is that the GPL is not viral.
> You might not like it, but it's still not viral.


Right, so you're saying because it doesn't hold a gun to my head to 
make me use the library, it's not viral?

That's like saying because I didn't force you to sleep with a
prostitute, what you have can't be herpes.




Sorry, but I quite like that analogy. I'll stop if you will :)

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