From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 16 10:49: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (durham0-128.dsl.gtei.net [4.3.0.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3269F37B42C for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 10:48:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 23870 invoked by uid 1000); 16 Apr 2001 17:48:22 -0000 Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:48:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: Brett Glass Cc: dwalton@acm.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010416114300.04d00640@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bill Gates is hardly RMS' opposite. The GPL is every bit infectious and virus-like as Windows. If anything, they're twins, just don't suggest it to RMS. Bill Gates, however, would probably have the sense to realise it was true. /joseph -- Joseph Mallett Security Specialist jmallett@newgold.net www.newgold.net irc.newgold.net/#xMach xMach Core Team jmallett@xMach.org www.xMach.org xMach Research Group www.xmrg.com Crystal Pepsi: sure it caused cancer, but it was leet. On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > At 11:45 PM 4/15/2001, Dave Walton wrote: > > >I've just had a wonderful idea for a new military weapon of > >unprecedented destructive power: Put Brett Glass and Richard > >Stallman in a freight container with a wall between them. When a > >timer expires the wall opens, causing a devastating > >matter/antimatter explosion. > > The thing is, I'm not Stallman's opposite. (If anything, Bill Gates > is.) Yes, I point out RMS's demagoguery, but I also do that with > many other demagogues in my editorials and other writing. > > --Brett > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message