Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:20:09 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, hamilton@pobox.com, dyson@iquest.net, marko@uk.radan.com, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act Message-ID: <199902250520.AAA08064@y.dyson.net> In-Reply-To: <199902241841.LAA03910@usr04.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Feb 24, 99 06:41:44 pm"
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Terry Lambert said: > > (This was meant to be a humorous commentary on those who believe in the > > notion of social engineering, an example of such would be GPL and the GNU > > manifesto.) > > Or the US Constitution, or the Magna Carta. > > Social engineering is not inherently evil. > Lately it seems to have been. We have a good framework now, and more engineering seems to be more restrictions. If there was no contract now, then engineering might be a good thing, but I sure wouldn't trust our current group of politicians. I also wouldn't often trust programmers with a very specific and narrow minded agendas being predominant social engineers. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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