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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
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> 
> Well put. :) And quite important. My own tendency to take a stand on GPL is
> motivated by the dictum, "all that is needed for evil to triumph is for
> good people to do nothing."
> 

Adam,
	please, a little perspective.  GPL and Stallman are not evil.
Clearly do not agree with them, but debasing the meaning of the word
evil is the wrong thing to do.  Consider some of the evil behaviors
people have engaged in, and compare them to the GPL and Stallman.  The
same word should not be used to describe both.   Once a person
characterized those that have different views as evil, discussion is
no longer reasonable and people begin to turn to other methods to deal
with what they have determined to be evil.

jmb


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