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At 11:41 AM 7/5/2001, Greg Lehey wrote:

>Note that Jordan Hubbard would fail this test too.

While I agree with Jordan about many things, I have long 
taken issue with acquiescence to the GPL. I feel that this 
acquiescence is one of the reasons that the BSDs have failed 
to achieve the recognition that they deserve.

>Guys, when will you learn that times change?  GNU isn't our
>competition, it's part of our cultural space. 

Absolutely incorrect. The GPL is an attempt to TURN freely
redistributable, peer-reviewed code -- such as the BSDs --
into a weapon against the interests of commercial programmers
and programmers' livelihoods in general. It is not a proper
part of the BSDs' "cultural space" (as you put it) but rather
an invasion of that space. Advocacy of BSD demands that this
be pointed out.

--Brett Glass


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