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Date:      Sun, 4 Oct 1998 10:19:28 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Frank Pawlak <fpawlak@execpc.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Device Drivers for Linux and Intel's annoucement
Message-ID:  <19981004101928.I8240@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981003181807.042f0820@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:19:10PM -0600
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On Saturday,  3 October 1998 at 18:19:10 -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 09:42 AM 10/4/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>> Well, you've seen the responses to my question, in particular Jamie
>> Love's, which should count a lot more than any of us on the forum.
>> Brett, please tone it down a bit.
>
> Greg:
>
> Have you seen Jamie's other remarks?

Yes.

> Unfortunately, he is enamored of the GPL,

I don't see anything that suggests that.  And certainly, compared to
commercial licenses, he has a point.  What would be unfortunate about
that?

> and says that I "hate" it merely because I have the temerity to
> raise objections to it.

I think that he, like I, is more concerned by the manner in which you
do it.

The GPL isn't our enemy, any more than Linux is.  They do things
slightly differently, but they're still basically free software.  I
don't think we'll get anywhere useful by discussing the relative
merits of free software licenses.

And yes, Jordan is right.  The signal-to-noise ratio is approaching 0.
This is probably my last message on the subject.

Greg
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