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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:54:30 -0600
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: The desktop apathy
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At 11:42 AM 5/29/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>I don't care.  Rather, I'm quite happy with that.  If I were writing
>a commercial quality word processor for free, the GPL is the licence
>I'd choose.

Alas, you've been a GPL zealot since I've first seen your postings
here. It is a testament to the tolerance of the BSD community that
you haven't been sent packing.

>Would you rather pay $5000 per seat or whatever it was for crap like
>CDE?  That's where we'd be if the GPL'd alternatives didn't exist.  

Bull. This is no more true than a claim that we'd all have to buy
Solaris were it not for Linux. Thanks to the BSDs, there is a truly
free alternative.

--Brett


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