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Comment by andreasvc

13 years ago

You're painting a picture of a way out that doesn't exist for most people (reverse straw man?). When it's about a library on which a lot of software depends then the common non-programmer has had absolutely no choice about this and cannot re-implement either.

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archangel_one  13 years ago

Right, but that's not the fault of the original author. He licensed his code a particular way, and everyone else has the choice to either use it or not. I don't like the attitude of blaming him simply because lots of other people came to depend on it without realising that it's less free than some of them might have liked.

  • WayneDB  13 years ago

    Maybe we don't have to blame him for anything, but we can still have the opinion that he's a childish asshole.

    • irahul  13 years ago

      > but we can still have the opinion that he's a childish asshole.

      We can also have the opinion that people who believe that someone who wrote a free software and gave the implementation for free should play by their rules and only use license which plays nice with their software are childish, entitled assholes.

    • sbuk  13 years ago

      Arguably the same can be said for people that feel the urge to do so, doubly so for calling it "evil".