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Filed under: Asides | Tags: | October 20th, 2009

Freedom in Action

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain this to you, a story about someone republishing Mark Pilgrim’s book and selling it on Amazon. Not directly about the GPL, but the principles are the same.

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  • Julien | October 20th, 2009 @ 3:16 pm | Reply

    Indeed. Yet, I think Mark is kind of “exceptional” and most people wouldn’t react that way. The simple fact that he wrote about it proves that this raised interrogations from him.

    I guess too many people assume that contributing is a “kern” : when you contribute to something, you expect people who use your work would contribute back, while it’s not, some licenses allow people to take without giving.

  • Jonathan Blackhall | October 20th, 2009 @ 4:28 pm | Reply

    Just read that too. Very good read!

  • Christopher | October 21st, 2009 @ 8:50 pm | Reply

    Try:

    ‘Willful Loss of Rights to Socialist Ideology’

    That would be a more accurate title…

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