If by "equal opportunity" you mean a right to other peoples property you can fuck off.
Great! Welcome to libertarianism. Do whatever the fuck you want on your own property, with absolutely no right to anyone elses.
Absolute negative freedom, no positive freedom.
Cool strawman bro.
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Oh the irony.
Another lolbert thread.
The irony in talking about slavery when what you advocate is that people give their work away for free, as if that somehow isn't a nightmare scenario. People may not like it but the modern capitalist world is the most fair playing ground, your life is only a nightmare if you choose it to be
You deserve it because you chose to live in a nightmare.
You're implying we should all be free to keep slaves. The GPL preserves the freedom of everyone, not just those who write the code.
Freedom can't be defended or tampered with, that's what makes it free. Even in a situation like preventing slavery, what you say you're doing is "fighting for freedom", which isn't inherently a bad thing, but it is still restrictive and goes against the idea of freedom. It's ironic to say you're defending freedom by taking it away from people. True freedom is true freedom, GPL faux freedom is just that, false freedom. There's no denying or debating that, what you should debate instead are your opinions on certain liberties but these GPL advocates don't, they conflate everything into one issue under the wrong name because it is adventitious for them to do so. It's a dishonest weasel tactic that seems to work against them.
I should have the ability to do whatever the fuck I want with what I buy. If you don't provide the source code so I can adapt the software to my needs, and let me use the software as I wish, you're ripping me, the user, off.
You don't see your furniture store owner getting all uppity when you decide to alter your furniture, do you, faggot? Free software works on the same principle, but for software.
A string of numbers (what software is) is non-excludable and non-rivalrous. You can't really sell it. It's especially not a sale if you keep strings attached to each copy you sell 'just license'. And even if it's proprietary, people can 'pirate' the fuck out of it so you don't earn money anyway.
You can fucking charge for free software. Just look at grsecurity and RedHat's business models.
Now fuck off and go sell 'just license' your proprietary crapware with strings attached elsewhere.