Destroying Quote by Darl McBride Download Open image “At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.” — Darl McBride ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destroying End of the day Ends Programming Software The end of the day Values
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
The idea of free software is that users of computing deserve freedom. They deserve in particular to have control over their computing. And proprietary… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less. — David F. Emery Copy Share Image
Free software is software that respects your freedom and the social solidarity of your community. So it's free as in freedom. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price.” — Richard M. Stallman Copy Share Image
Today many people are switching to free software for purely practical reasons. That is good, as far as it goes, but that isn't all… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Free software is part of a broader phenomenon, which is a shift toward recognizing the value of shared work. Historically, shared stuff had a very bad name. The reputation was that people always abused shared things, and in the physical world, something that is shared and abused becomes worthless. In the digital world, I think we have the inverse effect,… — Mark Shuttleworth Copy Share
I'd like to point out that I don't think that there is anything fundamentally superior in the GPL as compared to the BSD license,… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related to our… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly contradict IBM's… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today. — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running… — Darl McBride Copy Share Image
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Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Even if we are destroying this planet, we are playing our role perfectly. — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image