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Date:      Mon, 8 Feb 1999 06:46:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      Bill Pechter <pechter@pechter.nws.net>
To:        brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass)
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release)
Message-ID:  <199902081146.GAA03263@pechter.nws.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990208043419.0460cbe0@mail.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Feb 8, 1999  4:42:44 am"

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> At 10:50 PM 2/7/99 -0800, Gregory Sutter wrote:
>  
> >> it's very important that we resist the GPL -- born of spite and
> >> popularized by sheer accident -- before we REALLY start to see
> >> negative effects.
> >
> >Some people don't believe that we will. 
> 
> You're absolutely entitled to that opinion. 

And he's not the only one who agrees with it.

> Again, you're entitled to disagree. But please do consider what
> I say not as a matter of "religion" but as a cool, reasoned view
> from someone who makes his predictions very carefully and after
> a LOT of consideration.
> 
> --Brett

Unfortunately the DOJ isn't assured of having any effective solution.
Microsoft will change only when it's in their own best interests
and it makes them more $$$.

The GPL will fail to spread only when more people realize it will hurt
their freedom and bottom line (personal and corporate).


Bill

---
  Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a 
  villain in a James Bond movie              -- Dennis Miller 
  bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.nws.net|pechter@pechter.ddns.org

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