From owner-freebsd-chat  Sat May 13  9:50:20 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B978537B65B
	for <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sat, 13 May 2000 09:50:18 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from scanner@jurai.net)
Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost)
	by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA48239;
	Sat, 13 May 2000 12:48:55 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 12:48:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: <scanner@jurai.net>
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, gh <grasshacker@linkfast.net>,
	freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
In-Reply-To: <20000513215350.A6803@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005131247090.48183-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org


> Is it possible that there may be more useful things for other people
> to do than rewrite existing well-written code?

I assume you mean BSD people *not* reinventing the wheel?
Because all you have to do is open your eyes to see that the GNU people
have tried in almost every case to re-write well-written code just to make
it available under the GPL. 



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message