From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 24 23:11:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.249.129.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FBAA14C9A for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:11:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA74172; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:09:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199902250709.XAA74172@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), toor@dyson.iquest.net, hamilton@pobox.com, marko@uk.radan.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The GPL and the Robinson-Patman Act In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:20:09 EST." <199902250520.AAA08064@y.dyson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:09:07 -0800 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hush, I heard that the so called social politicians are now placing illegal taps on e-mail lists! Time To Relax Dude Amancio > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message