From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 06:52:06 MDT
Emlyn O'Regan wrote:
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2573456,00.html
>
> I think this is old news, but I never saw it here. Linus Torvalds amongst
> others takes an anti-Napster position, and supports Metallica's lawsuit.
>
I actually think that what Larry Wall says is even better, though Linus of
course has more chic amongst the more ignorant slackerati:
"Larry Wall, developer of the Perl language, has a similar perspective. "Open
source should be about giving away things voluntarily," he says. "When you force
someone to give you something, it's no longer giving, it's stealing. Persons of
leisurely moral growth often confuse giving with taking." "
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