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Old June 5th, 2002
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Originally posted by Paradog
If you publish it under the GPL you dont take any responsibility for damage caused by your program.
If you write GPL software you are most likely broke, don't own anything and therefore don't have to worry about law suits for damage anyway.
GPL doesn't protect you from law suits. If you make $$ from your program you are a bigger target because you have something to go after.
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Originally posted by Unregistered
They will spend hundred thousands of dollars on maintaining their servers, while their clients connect to their networks free of cost, and make money.
There are no central servers! Everyone on the network gives a little bandwidth, and gets a little bandwith, so it evens out mostly.
It's file "sharing" at its best.
There are a few greedy people who try to profit off of the "free" bandwidth, they write P2P programs and display ads on people's screens while they "share" files. Bad karma will catch up with them.
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