Comments on: Miguel de Icaza: “We Have Removed All of the GPL Code” (MonoDevelop) http://techrights.org/2009/12/24/monodevelop-removes-gpl-code/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: dyfet http://techrights.org/2009/12/24/monodevelop-removes-gpl-code/comment-page-1/#comment-77151 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:40:22 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=24313#comment-77151 Because free gets in the way of functionality is why more and more end users and enterprises use and demand free as in freedom software? Because freedom gets in the way of functionality is why Google chooses and uses GNU/Linux as it’s backend infrastructure, and much of the Internet relies on free as in freedom software to operate?

GNU/Linux would not even have existed without freedom, which ultimately includes the freedom to participate on an equal basis it’s development. That is an important part of how functionality arises from freedom in the first place. Freedom and user centered also always converge in the long run. Removing freedom means removing future development of functionality as well as dis-empowering users. It is a long-term way to reduce, rather than increase, GNU/Linux adoption, and we all know in who’s agenda this really serves, whether done by some proxy like Novell or by people who say freedom has to be sacrificed for functionality because they do not understand what either freedom really is or why freedom is essential for GNU/Linux to be successful.

]]> By: kreshwolf http://techrights.org/2009/12/24/monodevelop-removes-gpl-code/comment-page-1/#comment-77127 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:50:04 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=24313#comment-77127 I guess it is true, religious fanatics are the same the world over. This is clearly a case of the religious dogma of “Free” getting in the way of functionality.

This is the reason people run from Linux, it is the religious cooks and their visions of “Free”!

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