From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 24 21:20:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from iquest3.iquest.net (iquest3.iquest.net [209.43.20.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C96014E2E for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:20:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@y.dyson.net) Received: (qmail 12449 invoked from network); 25 Feb 1999 05:20:09 -0000 Received: from dyson.iquest.net (HELO y.dyson.net) (198.70.144.127) by iquest3.iquest.net with SMTP; 25 Feb 1999 05:20:09 -0000 Received: (from toor@localhost) by y.dyson.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id AAA08064; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:20:09 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199902250520.AAA08064@y.dyson.net> Subject: Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act In-Reply-To: <199902241841.LAA03910@usr04.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Feb 24, 99 06:41:44 pm" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:20:09 -0500 (EST) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, hamilton@pobox.com, dyson@iquest.net, marko@uk.radan.com, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] 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 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