From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 26 10:31: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.monmouth.com (shell.monmouth.com [205.231.236.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47A87150E4 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 10:29:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pechter@pechter.ddns.org) Received: from pechter.ddns.org (bg-tc-ppp141.monmouth.com [209.191.60.142]) by shell.monmouth.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA14839; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:29:34 -0500 (EST) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by pechter.ddns.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA34088; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:29:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from pechter) From: Bill Pechter Message-Id: <199902261829.NAA34088@pechter.ddns.org> Subject: Re: GNU/FreeBSD? Not by that name In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990226084333.04079300@mail.lariat.org> from Brett Glass at "Feb 26, 1999 8:51:39 am" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:29:24 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: bpechter@shell.monmouth.com X-Phone-Number: 908-389-3592 X-OS-Type: FreeBSD 3.0-Stable X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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