Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:29:24 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@pechter.ddns.org> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNU/FreeBSD? Not by that name Message-ID: <199902261829.NAA34088@pechter.ddns.org> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990226084333.04079300@mail.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Feb 26, 1999 8:51:39 am"
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Brett Glass Said... > At 10:39 AM 2/26/99 -0500, Christopher Masto wrote: > > >After you get some therapy, you may want to read > >http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/categories.html where you can find that > >even the evil mind-control organization known to you as GNU doesn't > >mind non-GPLed software. > > After you get through with their propaganda, you may want to digest > the following recent quote from RMS: > > >> In the GNU Project, discrimination against proprietary software is not > >> just a policy--it's the principle and the purpose. Proprietary > >> software is fundamentally unjust and wrong, so when we have the > >> opportunity to place it at a disadvantage, that is a good thing. > > Stallman and Perens both brand the BSDs as "evil" because they > provide help to "the enemy": commercial software. Brett -- he's just in denial. > >If we can't all get along, can't we all at least just calm down? This I'll agree with. GPL is a bad thing to many of us. I don't even write software for a living and I see it's restrictions on freedom. The GPL has kept a lot of stuff restricted. Right now I release my stuff the same way I did in the CP/M days. It's free in the least restrictive manor -- PUBLIC DOMAIN. Bill --- Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller bpechter@shell.monmouth.com|pechter@pechter.nws.net|pechter@pechter.ddns.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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