Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 05:44:05 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Frank Warren <clovis@home.com> Cc: MrChevy <captainauto@lightspeed.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which OS to install Message-ID: <19990208194405.13722.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <36BD2FE9.5CA22441@home.com> of Sat, 06 Feb 1999 22:17:13 PST References: <36BD2080.59EB5013@lightspeed.net> <36BD2FE9.5CA22441@home.com>
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I would personally never use Linux for certain technical reasons which are not at all relevant here, but this is an absurd claim: > BSD is morally superior to Linux on all counts. Bullshit. > It is not merely free > of charge, it is intellectually and spiritually free. The code is there > and you can do with it as you please, without restriction. If you use > Linux, it is under the Free Software Foundations "Gnu Public License" > that most of us partial to BSD call the "Gnu Public Virus." It is an > effort to encumber all software, steal everyone's ideas, and looks more > like the Bill Gates Empirical Plan than Bill Gates own monopoly does. More bullshit. > This requires some explanation. But you're not the person to provide it. > If you use some Gnu-licensed software, you are REQUIRED, under penalty > of criminal and civil prosecution, to publish the source without cost > beyond distribution charges. It substitutes the KGB of Stalin and the > Death Camps of Hitler with the guns and powers of US Copyright law. > Anything you do with Gnu never again belongs to you. It is not a > statement of "live free or die!" it is, rather, a statement of "give to > us or the power of the state will kill/incarcerate or at least bankrupt > you with legal fees." Learn the facts before you spout such rubbish. And ask yourself how your beloved FreeBSD can use gcc and gdb as its installed compiler and debugger if the GPL is so evil and FreeBSD is so good. I don't have the inclination to check, but I'd be very surprised if there weren't other parts of FreeBSD under the GPL as well. I won't take up the rest of this insane diatribe, and I certainly won't add any more to this subject, but I'd suggest that innocent newbies who may have seen it should forget they ever saw it. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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