Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:07:18 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "gh" <grasshacker@linkfast.net>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000513100518.0444c390@localhost> In-Reply-To: <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com>
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At 07:08 AM 5/13/2000, gh wrote: >Curious: If many people are not in favor (for lack of a better phrase) of >GNU, why do we still use tools developed under its ideology? Because those tools have wiped out all but a few possible alternatives. This is, in fact, the goal of the predatory FSF agenda. I personally have advocated the complete de-GNUing of all of the BSDs. So far, the closest BSD to this goal is OpenBSD, which uses very little contaminated code. --Brett "Microsoft is continually protecting its turf, even if that turf appears to the rest of us as belonging to a company other than Microsoft." -- Mark Stephens, AKA Robert X. Cringely To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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