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Date:      Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:47:19 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net>
Cc:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010419204537.044d1340@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.33.0104192226140.9810-100000@aphex.newgold.net>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20010419194439.0444ecc0@localhost>

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At 08:27 PM 4/19/2001, Joseph Mallett wrote:

>Apparently, they want to discourage widespread adoption of their software,
>or just general use of it by anyone who isn't an intoxicated GNUbie
>prepubescent.

Actually, no. They want it to be adopted by USERS -- so as to destroy
programmers' markets. And they want it to be adopted by programmers
who will, against their own interests, advance the FSF's agenda.
They do NOT want commercial programmers to be able to adopt it,
hoever.

--Brett


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