From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 19 21:33: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from granger.mail.mindspring.net (granger.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.148]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27D437B6CF for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 21:33:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhix@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (user-33qtjin.dialup.mindspring.com [199.174.206.87]) by granger.mail.mindspring.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA19699 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 00:33:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39261731.31BB82B3@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 21:40:17 -0700 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? References: <000001bfbf78$b1b345c0$021d85d1@youwant.to> <3924803C.7C5BD92C@mail.ptd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Thomas M. Sommers" wrote: > > It is saying, "This is the best way to make your program useful", not > "This is the only way you can use this license." > It should be noted as well that this is a statement of opinion that is a subject of great contentious debate and is *not* the universally agreed upon method of being "the best way to make your program useful". Some of us actually believe that it's a rather poor way of publishing ones work. -- Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message