From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 18:26:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from happy.checkpoint.com (happy.checkpoint.com [199.203.156.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE6137B518 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 18:26:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mellon@pobox.com) Received: (from mellon@localhost) by happy.checkpoint.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA19346; Sun, 14 May 2000 04:26:02 GMT (envelope-from mellon@pobox.com) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 04:26:02 +0000 From: Anatoly Vorobey To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514042602.A19316@happy.checkpoint.com> References: <4.3.1.2.20000513104752.0447aa50@localhost> <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> <20000514012024.A16224@happy.checkpoint.com> <4.3.1.2.20000513191658.0451dbb0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000513191658.0451dbb0@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 07:20:37PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 07:20:37PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 07:20 PM 5/13/2000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: > > >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. > > > >This is one bit of silly nonsense I wish you would stop repeating. > > Sorry, but this is one point which is indisputable. Stallman himself > has said REPEATEDLY, in person and in print, that this is a goal > of the GPL. Then maybe you can cite something. > Perhaps you don't know Stallman's history. Perhaps I do, but am not blinded by hatred. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message