From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 7:27:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6095937B53B for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 07:27:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id D8413755B; Tue, 16 May 2000 07:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D548A1D89; Tue, 16 May 2000 07:28:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 07:28:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: <39210802.4CA91E8A@mindspring.com> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 16 May 2000, W Gerald Hicks wrote: :According to a recent Linux Journal article, several true legal experts :have offered the opinion that it is too restrictive in some areas, too :vague in others and even we non-experts can easily see that it is a :twisted morass of confusing legalese. That's enough to make quite a :significant crowd of developers reject it in favor of a much simpler and :less vindictive (more free) license. :Hitler. The Nazis. Mussolini too. Now, is this thread dead? Nowhere in Godwin's law is it stated that the reference of Nazism or Hitler will kill a thred. Godwin's merely states that if a thread goes on long enough, chances of references to the above go to one. There is a corrollary which states that intentionally Godwinating a thread is doomed to failure I believe. Jamie Bowden -- "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, Microsoft is different from any other software company..." Kenneth G. Cavness To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message