Remote access to my machine

On 2004-05-21, Takeshi <do.not.spam.me@work.com> wrote:

> I want the user to login on my machine
> and work on code with intellectual property rights (without being able
> to copy the files back onto his machine).


Pet peeve #42: I love when people take open source OS/tools/development and
then use it to produce software that is closed source or copyrighted as can
be- nothing like giving back to the community! Free software! (as long it's
not *my* code that we're talking about...)




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jayjwa wrote:

> On 2004-05-21, Takeshi <do.not.spam.me@work.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I want the user to login on my machine
>>and work on code with intellectual property rights (without being able
>>to copy the files back onto his machine).
>
>
>
> Pet peeve #42: I love when people take open source OS/tools/development and
> then use it to produce software that is closed source or copyrighted as can
> be- nothing like giving back to the community! Free software! (as long it's
> not *my* code that we're talking about...)
>
>
>
>

Just so that you know. My company regularly makes financial
contributions to the FSF and various OS software like PostgreSQL.
Besides, our Linux platform is *purchased* from Redhat (who I believe
give something back to the comunity). I have also personally contributed
code changes and bugfixes to a number of OS software I have used in the
past.

Personally, I think the GPL is too restrictive and too left wing (almost
communist tendencies), and I try to avoid it whenever I can. We can't
all live in a barter system. However, I do believe in giving credit
where credit is due, and we make regular financial contributions to any
lesser GPL software we use - it is only fair to compensate people for
the work they have done. Doing otherwise would be stealing.

On 2004-05-23, Takeshi <do.not.spam.me@work.com> wrote:

> Just so that you know. My company regularly makes financial
> contributions to the FSF and various OS software like PostgreSQL.
> Besides, our Linux platform is *purchased* from Redhat (who I believe
> give something back to the comunity). I have also personally contributed
> code changes and bugfixes to a number of OS software I have used in the
> past.

I'm glad to hear that then, many do not.


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