Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:56:45 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, Arun Sharma <adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000522125201.00e4be10@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000522145256.A5983@happy.checkpoint.com> References: <20000521131809.A6546@sharmas.dhs.org> <20000521131809.A6546@sharmas.dhs.org>
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At 08:52 AM 5/22/2000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: >I thought it was really, really silly, in the true spirit of >Meyer wars raging occassionally on comp.object (the most memorable >one being "had they used Eiffel, that rocket wouldn't have crashed!"). I thought that it was extremely insightful. However, it did not cite some of the best examples of the FSF's intentional malevolence (and, therefore, lack of ethics) and thus could have made stronger arguments. The dig at FreeBSD was unfortunate. However, it was really more of a dig at the C language (which truly IS a source of serious bugs and security holes). --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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