From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 9: 7:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EF3137BF28 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 09:07:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04323; Sat, 13 May 2000 10:07:23 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000513100518.0444c390@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:07:18 -0600 To: "gh" , From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> References: <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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