Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 08:41:58 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000514084158.0089fb50@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <200005140612.XAA17820@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <20000514104553.A28453@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <391DDB3E.8DFFD8D0@mindspring.com> <20000514041848.K22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513181415.00890300@mail85.pair.com> <20000514051809.N22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513194018.00898d80@mail85.pair.com> <20000514104553.A28453@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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At 23:12 13-05-2000 -0700, Arun Sharma wrote: >Programmers should have unrestricted freedom to pursue material >comforts. Giving away software is not incompatible with this freedom. > >What the BSD's need to do to divert programmer mindshare away from >the popular GPL theme, is effective delivery of the above message. Well put. :) And quite important. My own tendency to take a stand on GPL is motivated by the dictum, "all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." I tend to take an active approach. For example, when I released gracula (graphic counter language), a French gentleman created a number of counters using it. He released them under GPL. I contacted him and asked him to reconsider. He decided it was not worth it because it was "only counters" (what a thing to say to the creator of graphic counter language! <g>). But at least he added a note to all his counters that while his counters were gpled, gracula (my software) was not. Cheers, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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