Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:56:03 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: scanner@jurai.net, 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: <4.3.1.2.20000513105453.04483d70@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005131247090.48183-100000@sasami.jurai.net> References: <20000513215350.A6803@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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At 10:48 AM 5/13/2000, scanner@jurai.net wrote: > > 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. Indeed. The purpose -- since the code was already available from other sources -- was NOT to make something more useful or to advance the state of the art. Rather, it was to advance Richard Stallman's agenda. --Brett "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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