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by tsegers 1315 days ago
> So FreeSoftware/OSS people don't work hard?

That's not a fair conclusion from the parent comment at all. Software developers _do_ have the right to prevent their work from being given away for free. Them _choosing_ to develop FOSS is them voluntarily waiving that right.
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nix23 1315 days ago
And most of the small authors think that copyright should not be longer then 5 years, the only one's against it are the big publishers, so as a small author you cannot choose if you want at least a bit money.

But yeah its not a completely fair comparison.

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xhkkffbf 1313 days ago
The GPL is not waiving that right. It's attaching a condition that any improvements must also be distributed too. So that's not free as in beer.
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