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List:       ruby-talk
Subject:    Re: GUI With Ruby
From:       google () andreas-s ! net
Date:       2007-03-15 10:15:04
Message-ID: 1173953404.269597.119840 () d57g2000hsg ! googlegroups ! com
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On Mar 15, 9:08 am, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:22:37PM +0900, Bill Kelly wrote:
> > I dunno; I'm not suggesting a perfect solution exists; I'm
> > just saying we have real-life issues with closed source
> > binaries in the Q2 community.  And these are issues I felt
> > the GPL (or some other license meeting the appropriate
> > criteria) would have solved/prevented.
>
> So would any number of other possible solutions, such as reimplementing
> the same stuff

Great Idea. Why care about licenses at all, when we can just
reimplement everything we need?

> One of the problems I have with the GPL is that it
> reduces the ability of a reimplimentation under another license to
> "catch on", in large part thanks to the fame imparted on it by the
> successes of some software projects that bear the GPL.


So the problem you have with the GPL is that GPL projects usually work
very well? I see your point...


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