[News] "Berniethlon" - The End | ANN.lu |
Posted on 01-Dec-2002 18:46 GMT by Gareth Knight (Edited on 2002-12-01 21:44:11 GMT by Christian Kemp) | 221 comments View flat View list |
"It saddens me greatly to announce that, effective today, any of my Amiga-related software development has been mothballed indefinitely. This means that, pending any unexpected developments, there won't be any "Amithlon v2" (aka "Berniethlon"), nor any further support or add ons for "Amithlon v1" by me."
Read more at the Amithlon site
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Posted by Bill Hoggett on 02-Dec-2002 01:17 GMT | In reply to Comment 101 (Steffen Haeuser): @Steffen
> Why should releasing a non-free program be ETHICALLY TAINTED ?
"Free as in speech, not as in beer", as has been pointed out numerous times. It's part of the fundamental policy of the FSF, and one of the reasons the GPL exists in the first place.
Whether "ethically tainted" is too strong a phrase is debatable, but there's nothing difficult or scandalous about the principle involved.
> Writing programs for money is doing a normal JOB. There is nothing at all
> bad in it. Unless maybe in Communism where making money is considered
> bad in any case :)
No, no, no. Writing software for money is not considered bad by the GPL or the FSF. It's the constant misinterpretation of the term "free" that causes the problem. It's "free" as in non-proprietary, not "free" as in gratis. |
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