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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:01:35 +1000
From:      Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@theinternet.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [OT] RMS Suing was [SUGGESTION] - JFS for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20011212220135.Q46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3C174284.8F0B3B7B@mindspring.com>; from Terry Lambert on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:41:56AM -0800
References:  <20011211102645.46795.qmail@web21110.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210220153.50612.qmail@web21102.mail.yahoo.com> <20011210161410.L92148@elvis.mu.org> <3C15AC5A.44BFD2BD@mindspring.com> <20011211183001.B67986@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C15CD07.6D5FC2E7@mindspring.com> <20011212131125.A82733@monorchid.lemis.com> <3C16D226.F169C43D@mindspring.com> <20011212203016.O46324@zeus.theinternet.com.au> <3C174284.8F0B3B7B@mindspring.com>

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+-------[ Terry Lambert ]----------------------
|
| > Only the copyright holder can do this, what code of any significance has
| > RMS contributed recently to this or any other project where this would be
| > a consideration?
| 
| I can't argue with that; historically, IBM has never sued anyone, and
| they were oh so happy to consider another license for the year I tried
| to push for it for use in a FreeBSD based IBM product.  Not.

Of course not, the GPL protects them from competitors taking and improving
their product and selling it at a profit without having to share. Ironic
isn't it, that the GPL has become a tool of the "oppressors" d8)

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