Linus Gets Censored
So, Linus started cussing up a storm in a recent GPL 3 debate and got his post deleted. In part of his criticism about GLP3, he states:
Well, not legally, regardless, I cannot help but feel you are ignoring the other side of the coin. You talk about "fairness", and yes, I agree, the GPLv2 is fair -- for developers, but not for me, the user.
That's [deleted], and you should be ashamed of being such a whiner.
First off, the developers are the ones that are doing this for you in the first place. So by definition, their opinion and feelings do matter more. They don't owe you anything, and any user who talks about this being "unfair" is just whining. [1]
Funny.... I thought that software should be free because of some innate right that users have to truely own their software. Yet, Linus argues that developers opinions matter more now, if developer opinions matter so much, how bout we get rid of the viral and destructive nature of GPL that makes potentially wonderful and useful GPL code a useless pile of crap for most of us. Following Linus's line of thinking, I would say that anyone who gives away their code for free and then talks about you being "unfair" when you decide you want to make use of it in your app that people are actually willing to pay for is just whining.