From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 18:39: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE77C37B726; Tue, 16 May 2000 18:38:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA10848; Tue, 16 May 2000 18:38:34 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAGKaiiv; Tue May 16 18:38:30 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA08616; Tue, 16 May 2000 18:38:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200005170138.SAA08616@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? To: jmb@hub.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 01:38:47 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mellon@pobox.com, tms2@mail.ptd.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000514115701.AE00637B608@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at May 14, 2000 04:57:01 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > copyright is the result of laws passed by congress. No. Copyright in the U.S. is a result of the idea of securing limited rights to authors and inventors in exchange for disclosure of their work in order to promote progress in the arts and sciences. This was codified by the U.S. founders in the U.S. Constitution. The laws are merely an instrumentality, as the GPL is an instrumentality of the GNU Manifesto (and not a very good one at that; the eCOS license is much more aligned with the goals of the GNU Manifesto than the GPL). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message