Live data from Hacker News

GNU Taler 0.0.0 released

lists.gnu.org

201–202 of 202 posts

Re: GNU Taler 0.0.0 released

#201
post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not so black and white. You can be against taxes but not want to opt out of civilization. If the government wasn't stealing around 40% of my income, I could spend that money on initiatives that benefit people other than just myself. Money could even be pooled by neighbors to pay for things. The thing is it has to be up to the individual how they spend their money, not left to guys with guns forcing you to hand o…

I'd rather not try out again what happens when we give people the option to help those less fortunate than them or let them suffer without any safety net for those people. History tells me that this won't work very well. And if you don't like that the government is stealing your money you can always go somewhere else (and resign your citizenship if your taxiation is bound by that) where they steal less money. You can…

> And if you don't like that the government is stealing your money you can always go somewhere else

if you can afford it.

> At the end of the day democracy demands that we have to live with decisions that we personally do not like but the majority of people voted for.

All major USA candidates are connected to Soros.

Re: GNU Taler 0.0.0 released

#202
post #11
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While parent post may be overstating , GPL does hinder software adoption now days.

Why? Users can still use it, programmers might not be able to make proprietary forks of it, but can certainly write programs to interoperate with it.

Well, it is not so much about the forks I think. A lot of the software now days is just a building brick you use to build something bigger. And the problem with the GPL licensed bricks is that you can use them only with GPL bricks. And I am talking about the code reuse as a whole not just the libraries. Or let's take a look at it from another angle.. Whatever licenses you choose to use in the end is about the community of the project, and GPL is firmly in the "If you are not with us, you are against us" domain, which community wise works only if there is big boogey man. And there used to be one. But now days most of the biggest companies do open source, so it is not so clear who is the boogey man, and whom is GPL protecting us from :)
Post reply on HN