From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 15 8:19:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86DC837B7E1 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 08:19:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@tutopia.com) Received: from tutopia.com ([216.226.229.109]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA5794 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 10:18:21 -0400 Message-ID: <39201455.AF98123D@asme.org> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 10:14:29 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? References: <20000514233807.AB9B337BA82@hub.freebsd.org> <391F57E0.D356FEC0@asme.org> <20000515092742.A13815@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <391F79AD.28ABD5C5@asme.org> <20000515094552.D13815@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org One more thing, WRT the use of GPL'd software when you don't like the license. 1) While I find the GPL unappropiate, the LGPL is acceptable as it permits some form of code reuse. 2) If you remember what I called the "social definition" of evil, it must be said that stupid people are more dagerous than evil people. The article "The laws of Human Stupidity" (sorry the article got lost, but the author is an Italian math teacher) defines a stupid person as a person who consistently harms himself and harms others that sorround him. If by using GPLd software you are doing good for yourself and you are helping people see the light behind *BSD, then it's OK. BTW, the OpenMotif license is cool. OpenMotif classifies as free software but not as Opensource: http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message