From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 21:13:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from queasy.outpost.co.nz (outpost-1.inspire.net.nz [203.79.88.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D9D737B417 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:13:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8615 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2001 05:13:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO outpost.co.nz) (192.168.1.199) by outpost-4.inspire.net.nz with SMTP; 18 Dec 2001 05:13:52 -0000 Message-ID: <3C1ED086.725352BC@outpost.co.nz> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:13:42 +1300 From: Craig Harding Organization: Outpost Digital Media Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop References: <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> <4hzo4hyv3c.o4h@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > so far into the tent and with so many people seemingly uncaring and > uninformed about having non-copyleft software swept into the dustbin > of history as better copyleft software replaces it piece by piece. If the software's better, isn't that the point? Is it really the smart approach to choose the worse solution to a problem just because of the license it uses? > It's suprised me that it took almost 5 months on the MLs and 6 months > before that on the NG for me to see the subject come up in even this > half-serious -chat thread. It's a matter of history. After so many endless threads over the last few years on the evils (or otherwise) of the GPL, usually with Brett Glass endlessly pushing his point of view to allcomers, I think you'll find that most people subscribed to -chat are heartily sick of the subject. -- C. -- Craig Harding crh@outpost.co.nz ICQ# 26701833 Outpost Digital Media Ltd http://www.outpost.co.nz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message