From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 20 21:37:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9745437B401 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 21:37:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A3343FA3 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 21:37:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA26147; Tue, 20 May 2003 22:37:09 -0600 (MDT) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook renders your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20030520223347.02d03490@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:37:07 -0600 To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen), freebsd-chat@freebsd.org From: Brett Glass In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: Re: ESR/OSI's Unix/Linux-history-laden treatise on SCO vs. IBM X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 04:37:18 -0000 At 11:51 AM 5/19/2003, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > In his wrap-up, he gives us this copyleftic whopper: "We wrote our > Unix and Linux code as a gift and an expression of art, to be > enjoyed by our peers and used by others for all licit purposes both > non-profit and for-profit." That really IS a whopper. The GPL ensures that Linux certainly CANNOT be used "for all licit purposes both non-profit and for-profit." And ESR knows it. This demonstrates his hypocrisy and that of the OSI: they refuse to admit that the GPL is destructive and violates their own "Open Source Definition." --Brett Glass