bons's Journal: Slashdot: Free as in beer is all that matters?

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/31/1651254 is cementing my views on Slashdot and greed. The number of pro-piracy posts (and the editorial slant of the original article) is clearly "it's ok to pirate".

And yet, if the source code in an open source application was being used in a closed source application well outside the open source license, what would be the response?

You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you expect people and companies to respect your license and your creation, then you have to respect theirs. That's simple enough.

What does this mean in the long run? Really, all it means is that you use that which you claim to love. You use freeware, open source, software. You use Linux, Mozilla, Gimp, etc. And you let the rest of the world deal with Adobe and Microsoft because YOU DON'T NEED THEM.

There's no reason to support piracy on slashdot unless you actually belive closed source software is actually better then open source freeware.

Sadly enough, that seems to be the belief now.