Free?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"renoX" <renzyx at free.fr> wrote in message 
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> >I'dneverseenitbefore-maybeIleadashelteredlife.
>>
>>GPL:"FreeasinHerpes"
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>>Doesn'tthatjusthitthenailonthehead.

What happened to the spaces?

>
> No, not at all.
> First, it isn't new: it's just the "GPL is viral" classic FUD, then
> it's still incorrect: when you're ill from a viral infection, you
> didn't choose it but a developer can choose whether he wants to use
> GPL code or not.
>
> Incorrect analogies are really, really nasty stuff, please don't
> propagate this FUD.
> renoX
>

Meh, use of the term "FUD" itself has become a FUD tactic. And it's just an 
analogy (plus joke). Analogies are rarely perfect and they aren't meant to 
hold up to being picked apart by all the little details. It's close enough 
as an analogy.