Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:53:43 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: gh <grasshacker@linkfast.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000513104752.0447aa50@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000513215350.A6803@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <4.3.1.2.20000513100518.0444c390@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <4.3.1.2.20000513100518.0444c390@localhost>
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At 10:23 AM 5/13/2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > I personally have advocated the complete de-GNUing of all of the BSDs. > >So how many replacements have you written for GNU utilities? I am probably not the best person to do all of the coding, as I am primarily an assembly language and embedded systems hacker. However, I would be willing to coordinate the effort. Who out there is interested in a project whose purpose is to "liberate" GNU code from its pernicious license, via either reimplementation or clean room reverse engineering? >Is it possible that there may be more useful things for other people >to do than rewrite existing well-written code? It depends on what you consider useful. GNU code not only useless to commercial developers but destructive and unethical. (Remember, the stated purpose of the GPL is to destroy programmers' livelihoods. It's no more ethical than Microsoft's predatory moves to wipe out Netscape.) Thus, providing truly free alternatives to GNU code is in fact very useful. --Brett Glass "I am, uh, BillGatus of Borg. Competition is futile. You will be integrated." --Brett Glass (After Jack Rickard) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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