From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 17 21:53:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7235837B422 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 21:53:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3I4rhj17532; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:53:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:53:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: Brett Glass Cc: Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010416155048.04c6f6f0@localhost> Message-ID: <20010418002742.A12981-100000@blues.jpj.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:48 AM 4/16/2001, Joseph Mallett wrote: > > >Bill Gates is hardly RMS' opposite. The GPL is every bit infectious and > >virus-like as Windows. If anything, they're twins, just don't suggest it > >to RMS. > > There's another similarity, come to think of it: They both have as much > money as they want (though the amounts are vastly different), but > begrudge anyone else the opportunity to make any. That's not what they themselves say: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/bill-economist.asp (the pages where Stallman puts on his halo and Gates stuffs a trash can with light bulbs -- http://www.stallman.org/saint.html and http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/default.asp -- are much funnier). -- Trevor Johnson http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message