Free?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Chante" <udontspamme at never.will.u> wrote in message 
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> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message 
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>> LOL. I don't think that it has anything to do with a capitalist anything. 
>> It's
>> going purely by the definition of viral. In the case of the GPL, because 
>> it's
>> viral, it affects everything that it comes into contact wtih.
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> Not just everyTHING, but also "infects" everyONE who "comes in contact 
> with it". Of course one can say the same for programmers who have worked 
> for a software company. The risk of having foreign code that is patented 
> or viral creeping into a pristine codebase isn't worth the risk (IMO) of 
> hiring "tainted" programmers.

Meh, thanks to the corrupt USPTO, all code is covered by one patent or 
another...programmer taint or not.

> Young programmers/programmer-wannabes need to consider this before 
> signing-on to get that paycheck. Once "tainted", they most likely will 
> never be able to become "untainted" (there are cures, but they are very 
> unlikely to be enacted).
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