From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 9:56:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79D437B65B for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 09:56:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04692; Sat, 13 May 2000 10:56:08 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000513105453.04483d70@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:56:03 -0600 To: scanner@jurai.net, Rahul Siddharthan From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Cc: gh , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <20000513215350.A6803@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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