From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jun 13 3:12:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9633F37B40F for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 03:12:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f5DACB624153 ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:12:11 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id MAA62839 ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:13:02 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:13:02 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Rich Wilson , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Message-ID: <20010613121302.I57154@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010612193022.K7519@lpt.ens.fr> <001f01c0f3f0$6c73c180$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <001f01c0f3f0$6c73c180$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:05:50AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt said on Jun 13, 2001 at 03:05:50: > "...The GPL infects only derivative works of GPLed software -- you have to > include part of the source code of a GPLed program in your program..." > > Notice something there HE USES THE VERB "INFECTS"!!! > > This is the same fool that in the same breath is bitching because Microsoft > is equating the GPL to cancer. Well -- if we're nitpicking here, cancer is not infectious, so there's no contradiction... > wants him to. He's the one describing GPL as a virus here!! > Unbelievable!!! I agree, it's surprising he uses that word. But it's accurate, what he writes. > "Copyright Regents of the University.... embedded in it" and "Gee, why > is Microsoft selling MS Office for MacOS X which is a BSD-based OS" and They'll take aim at MacOS X too. It's a competitor. The only reason they give for not porting Office to linux is that there is no demand for it. - R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message