From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 17:27:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.x-treme.gr (mail2.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65AE937B64A for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 17:27:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat32.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.224]) by mail2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.2) with ESMTP id DAA13934; Sun, 14 May 2000 03:27:02 +0300 Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e4E0RK001381; Sun, 14 May 2000 03:27:20 +0300 (EEST) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 03:27:20 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Brett Glass Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , gh , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514032720.A87670@hades.hell.gr> 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. I don't see how this can be derived from anything that Stallman has said, and it would be very interesting to see how you came to this conclusion. The closest thing that I've ever heard from GNU people is that programmers tend to ask for too much money, just because of a silly belief that they are the `High priests in the Software Temple'. But saying that programmers can live on less exotic amounts of money, is far different from saying that programmers should not be paid at all. All this said, I have to note that it feels strange to advocate for Stallman, long after I was enlightened and switched over to BSD from Linux. But I'm anxiously waiting to see where and how you saw it written that programmers' livelihood is GNU's enemy. - giorgos keramidas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message