From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 17 22:34: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DE8C37BABF for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:33:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA16935; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:33:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAwpaqcH; Fri Mar 17 23:32:59 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA05681; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:33:43 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200003180633.XAA05681@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 06:33:43 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000317173928.040fec50@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Mar 17, 2000 05:41:01 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >The people who say "Don't use Linux because it is GPL'ed" are > >idiots. > > This is the only point in your message with which I disagree. > If, as you've stated, the GPL is the instrument of an agenda which > is malicious, in what way is it idiotic to avoid perpetuating > or spreading the "virus?" "Use" vs. "utilize". If all I do is utilize SAMBA, that is, I have it installed and running, and I don't invest any of my intellectual property in it, then I really don't care if it is GPL or whatever, because it's exempted by the "mere agregation" clause of the (L)GPL, and it can't "infect" my code, so why should I bother with the effort of replacing it with a "clean" version that does the same thing? I end up spending money to no effect, just so I can be a puritan about license, which makes no sense. You have to decide what's strategic and what's tactical, and be willing to ignore the heritage of the tactical. Anything else is a bad business decision, and costs me money. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message