From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 15:21: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from happy.checkpoint.com (happy.checkpoint.com [199.203.156.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9655837B629 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 15:20:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mellon@pobox.com) Received: (from mellon@localhost) by happy.checkpoint.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA16254; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:20:24 GMT (envelope-from mellon@pobox.com) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 01:20:24 +0000 From: Anatoly Vorobey To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514012024.A16224@happy.checkpoint.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20000513100518.0444c390@localhost> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <4.3.1.2.20000513100518.0444c390@localhost> <20000513215350.A6803@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <4.3.1.2.20000513104752.0447aa50@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000513104752.0447aa50@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:53:43AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:53:43AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > (Remember, the stated > purpose of the GPL is to destroy programmers' livelihoods. This is one bit of silly nonsense I wish you would stop repeating. > Thus, > providing truly free alternatives to GNU code is in fact very useful. What's very useful is writing new code for people to use. It's not like there's any lack of goals in that direction. Let's concentrate on them. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message