> > It also isn't new.  Universities and such were sharing source code
> > for all sorts of stuff long before the 8086 even existed...
>
> Totally free (public domain) stuff is not new, but the GPL is new, and a
> marevellous piece of 'code'.

Not that new. It's at least twenty years old.

> > <expletive deleted> legal team that has to oversee and approve
> > every use of open source code in our products.  Somehow, I think
> > paying lawyers big bucks instead of paying programmers big bucks
> > was NOT what even RMS had in mind.
>
> Yes he had. You are making closed software, otherwise you would not need
> to avoid using GPL-ed software. And RMS has tried to make that hard. And
> he used the same law others use to make using software hard: the
> copyright law. I think GCC is good coding work, but GPL is much better.

Yes, but RMS is one of the fanatics. I see his point, but I'm a moderate
on this.
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