Did you ever say freedom?

This whole thing started when you said on 17th May 2007 18:28 "Chargh I would prefer Opera if was not just Free as in Beer, but Free as in Freedom."

That's upside down (again). BSD came first, before techno-socialism and the agenda of eliminating programming as a viable career came into the world. The correct way to say it is that GPL is nothing like the BSD license, and MPL is a modified GPL license. The GPL license is an ingenious virus that contaminates everything downstream and it's based on a nefarious agenda.

The BSD license is just a simple, 4 clause license that you don't need to be a solicitor to understand. "You can do whatever you want with this code, but don't try to say you wrote it. If you do release anything with it, you have to give credit to the guys who did write it."

I was responding to your comments about "Free as in Freedom". Since you said just now that you don't believe in Freedom and that "Freedom itself is a Bad Word", I don't have anything more to say to you. Bye.

I said "I would prefer Opera if was not just Free as in Beer, but Free as in Freedom." as a phrase most linux userexs would understand.

First of all, what do you have against Socialism. It just promotes people taking care of each other?. And the GPL does allow you to have a career, you can still sell the Code.

Could you explain your point, Instead of just throwing out insults?

really, I read it I just did not understand it. I understand the GPL fine.

I use Opera.

Firefox comes in all shapes and sizes and for all OS.
High Performing, Addon capability, and most importantly it is more popular and widely used than Internet Explorer. If Mozilla keeps this up, I.E. is going to be dead.

Firefox and Opera. they`re both great

Hands down, Lynx.

No pix? So what?

Oprah all the way!

I love Firefox, buy it seems to be prohibited by my school's Network Administrator!

I use Firefox and SeaMonkey on Windows XP, PC-BSD, and many Linux distributions. Firefox has been my default browser for a couple of years, but in some ways I almost wish I had stuck with the next Mozilla release, what was to be Mozilla 1.8, but became SeaMonkey instead. The one thing I do prefer in Firefox is that the Tab Close X mark is located with the Tab.

SeaMonkey and Konqueror (both of which I often use) have the Tab close X mark off in the far right hand corner.

Speaking of Konqueror, I am surprised it doesn't have a stronger following. I have actually started using it more often, not just as a file browser but as a Web browser as well. It is solid and very capable, in terms of capabilities, quite comparable to Firefox.

The one thing that Firefox has is a big community of customizations through the Add-Ons feature. Many people may consider that the killer feature.

I like Firefox

The problem with the GPL is that you must provide the source code, which is very unfriendly to businesses due to possible trade secrets being lost. The last thing a business wants is a free rebuild of their expensive software. The BSD license is short and to the point, whereas the GPL is like "freedom with our exception".

I happily use Firefox.

I like application consistency between different operating systems (as much as can be had, anyway), so multi-platform apps often get a vote from me.

That, and I just like the look and feel of Firefox. Great app.

Would Your Corporate example be the same with the BSD License?

Also thought other Company's cant use GPled source.

I use firefox, opera, Galeon, Dillo, Epiphany, seamonkey & sometimes lynx, links

Nope, because you don't have to provide the source and it doesn't require other programs linked to it to have the same license. Thus, you can use BSD-licensed code in a proprietary program. I know, it doesn't sound like a good thing, but if a company has a program with trade secrets, the last thing they want is to release the source to it. Since programs linked to it don't have to be BSD-licensed, it's easier to implement that code, such as TCP/IP for Windows, a basis for the Darwin kernel, and various tools for Linux.
Hmm, I tried looking but I couldn't spot a statement like that. Could you point it out?