From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 17 21:24:54 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 E652B37B419 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:24:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8671 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2001 05:24:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO outpost.co.nz) (192.168.1.199) by outpost-4.inspire.net.nz with SMTP; 18 Dec 2001 05:24:50 -0000 Message-ID: <3C1ED319.922CDD1E@outpost.co.nz> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:24:41 +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> <4.3.2.7.2.20011217221801.02841bc0@localhost> 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 Brett Glass wrote: > >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? > > Absolutely. It means the difference between earning a living and > being deprived of one (which is one of the explicit goals of the > GPL; see Stallman's "GNU Manifesto"). Then why don't you run off and make "MediocreBSD" using software that's second best but using the One True (GPL-Free) License? -- 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