From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 18 22:32: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from echunga.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A62F37B479 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:32:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by echunga.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eAJ6PSD53940; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:55:28 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:55:27 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: Brad Knowles , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL rant number 31391 (was: Jordan Hubbard on Darwin) Message-ID: <20001119165527.L52433@echunga.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001118184345.045f1d90@localhost> <20001119111646.C5877@echunga.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001118142924.00cb6850@localhost> <20001119111646.C5877@echunga.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001118184345.045f1d90@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20001118222633.046bb550@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001118222633.046bb550@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:28:27PM -0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 18 November 2000 at 22:28:27 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 07:02 PM 11/18/2000, Brad Knowles wrote: > >> If you truly want to tilt at that windmill, I suggest you go off and write a BSD C compiler (and C++, and Fortran, and the debugger, and the complete development environment) that doesn't depend on any GPL code, and you'll be in your grave before me. Grrr. If you can rant about GPL, let me at least vent my spleen that you have mangled Brad's message by removing the line breaks. What junk did that? > X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 You complain about the GPL, but you're happy with Microsoft? That I really don't understand. > You're planning to be in my grave later? ;-) Yes, I thought about asking that one too. > Seriously: Linux was only started in the early 90's, and GCC in the > 80's. There's no need to exceed one's lifespan to produce BETTER > code, so long as there's a concerted effort to make FreeBSD free. Well, I thought we had that effort, and that it had succeeded. I suppose it all depends on who makes the rules. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message