From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 22 17:18:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BECA111198 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:18:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA15027; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:48:36 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA49028; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:48:29 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990223114829.D93492@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:48:29 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Christopher Masto , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL issues (Was: More important Windows Refund Day coverage) References: <199902211924.OAA02025@y.dyson.net> <19990221180845.J93492@lemis.com> <199902211924.OAA02025@y.dyson.net> <19990222082525.A1429@ska.bsn> <4.1.19990221233032.03fffba0@mail.lariat.org> <19990222143416.A25682@netmonger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990222143416.A25682@netmonger.net>; from Christopher Masto on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 02:34:16PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 22 February 1999 at 14:34:16 -0500, Christopher Masto wrote: > Can't we stop all this nonsensical comparison of software licenses to > various "evil" political/economic systems, and just acknowledge that > we have differences of opinion when it comes to the way software > should be licensed? I think you're missing the point in the comparison with political systems. I wasn't claiming they were evil; both communism and anarchy have significant merits, they've just shown that they are failures as social systems. That doesn't mean that they need to fail as systems for writing software. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message