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[News] Call to Avoid Porting Free Software to Windows

Please do not port software to Windows!

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| While the GNU General Public License expressly prohibits me from
| denying you the freedom to port software protected by it to Windows,
| I feel that you do great damage to the world if you do. Let me explain.
| 
| Windows is a proprietary environment. They don't give you the source 
| code, and they do anything in their power to limit your freedom. They
| even try to limit what you can do with the software you rightfully
| bought from them. So, supporting them in any way is bad for the
| world, because it encourages others to try to limit others'
| freedoms (it worked great for Microsoft, so it must be a good
| idea, right?).
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http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/

Pick a License, Any License

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| It's a minefield, people. All I'm saying is this: the next time you
| release code into the wild, do your fellow developers a favor and
| pick a license-- any license.
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http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000833.html

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