From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 28 15:21:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lanshark.lanminds.com (lanshark.lanminds.com [208.25.68.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CBA14CB3 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:21:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@lmi.net) Received: from drtboi.lanminds.com (drtboi.lmi.net [208.25.91.219]) by lanshark.lanminds.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA05534; Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:21:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991028154156.047263d0@localhost> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:21:15 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: todd@lmi.net Organization: LMI.net From: Todd Meister To: Brett Glass Subject: RE: ok, let's get things interesting here... Cc: freebsd-chat , J McKitrick Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 28-Oct-99 Brett Glass wrote: > I've considered using AbiWord, but it's GPLed. (Not trying to start a flame > war here; just pointing it out.) That doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. "That" being the implication that using GPLed software is a bad idea. I've read plenty of arguments about why developers may not want to use the GPL, and not being a developer, I have no opinion on the subject. But if the software is free to use, or if I'm just using it for personal use, I see no problem, regardless of the license. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message