From owner-freebsd-security Sat Apr 24 20:38:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D069A14A2D for ; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 20:38:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA05866; Sat, 24 Apr 1999 21:35:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.32.19990424213135.0452f720@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.32 (Beta) Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 21:34:36 -0600 To: "Jay Doscher" , Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca>, erik From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: limit ftp users to their homedir Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990425031538.UWDM6760.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@[24.4.93.1 29]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The stated design purpose of the GPL is to destroy businesses that sell commercial software, as well as programmers' livelihoods. This is a spiteful, vindictive goal that professional programmers -- not to mention consumers who would like to have the choice of buying commercial software -- should not promote. See Richard Stallman's writings, in particular, "The GNU Manifesto" and "Why Software Should Not Have Owners," for more. --Brett Glass At 08:21 PM 4/24/99 -0800, Jay Doscher wrote: >This may be a dumb question, but what in the heck is wrong with GPL >software? I will concede that with the widely distributed version there is >a security hole, but that is not true of all GPL software. What is your >reasoning? > > >jay doscher >jay@doscher.com "You're not just e-mailing her, you're e-mailing anyone she's ever e-mailed." -- Dayton Daily News Cartoonist Mike Peters on the "Melissa virus" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message