From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 16:48:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (c62443-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.0.69.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDAB537B63E for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 16:48:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: (from adsharma@localhost) by sharmas.dhs.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA17056; Sat, 13 May 2000 16:48:16 -0700 Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 16:48:16 -0700 From: Arun Sharma Message-Id: <200005132348.QAA17056@sharmas.dhs.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? In-Reply-To: <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Reply-To: adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org.nospam Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In muc.lists.freebsd.chat, you wrote: > > > As above, people are comparing this group to a group of "communists" and > > > Stallman to Stalin. Who are we (or 'these people') to continue *using* GNU > > > tools and things development along its ideology? > > > > > > > The comparison is not unreasonable, it even is healthy..look in the > > archives, I worte something about this for the Daemonnews some time ago. > > OTOH, you don't need to agree with their license if you only execute the > > binaries, without redistribution and without looking at the source. > > It's a strange sort of communist who insists on free speech all the > time. Are you implying that communism and free speech are antonyms ? I think, communism and free speech are quite compatible, at least in theory. Sure, GNU bashing in *BSD groups should be toned down and I think, the same energies should be redirected towards educating the joe programmer (is FreeBSD a version of Linux ? type) about the harms that GPL does. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message