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I'm really surprised that people are trying to make open source something it's not because closed source has become such a boogyman. There is a very real practical need for companies that write software to use Copyright to protect their business -- there's nothing evil about it! It's what Copyright is for!

This kind of "screw the big guys" is something I can totally get behind -- power to them for setting the terms of their relationship with them but it's not and shouldn't be open source. And that should be okay. The right to run a piece of software for any purpose whatsoever is fundamental to the spirit of open source.




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