From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 21 4:45:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.golsyd.net.au (golsyd.net.au [203.57.20.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2BB37B403 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 04:45:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kaltorak@quake.com.au) Received: from [203.164.12.28] by www.quake.com.au (NTMail 4.30.0012/AB6169.63.5724aadf) with ESMTP id goubaaaa for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:44:12 +1000 Message-ID: <3B31DEE4.EEF97B2F@quake.com.au> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:47:48 +1000 From: Kal Torak X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Sergey N. Voronkov" Cc: Christoph Sold , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft uses FreeBSD References: <3B31CB11.C56D452C@i-clue.de> <20010621171530.A490@sv.tech.sibitex.tmn.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Sergey N. Voronkov" wrote: > > First at all, if the source is GPLed then it is Open Source. But > Open Source isn't GPL always! (See /COPYRIGHT on FreeBSD as an example). > > Second one - sources of the GPLed utilities are available from > Microsoft (see the bottom of the referenced page). So GPL terms > of use aren't broken. > > So, if you don't like Microsoft (as I'm), be free to use any > other software, but do not say they breaks any restricted licenses > when they aren't. I dont think he is talking about them breaking any laws, but M$ have this big thing about saying "open source is bad mkay"... Rather hypocritical of them to use said software them selfs... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message