On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:29:34PM +0100, Sergey Spiridonov wrote:
> That is why it is obvious for me, why working
> and distributing free is always better then working and distributing
> non-free.
Well, that's nice, but it's not the question at issue. If we could replace
all the non-free software people might want to use with free software,
we'd be happy to. Our choice is to distribute non-free software, or
not. The free software we distribute isn't affected _at all_.
> And you already demonstrate, that it is not obvious for you,
> when you said, that we can produce more good if we will distribute
> non-free. If it is possible, that distributing non-free can sometimes
> produce more good, it is not obvious for you, why GPL is always better
> then non-free.
Sometimes the choice isn't between GPL and non-free; it's between nothing
and non-free.
Cheers,
aj
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