From owner-freebsd-chat Sun May 14 1:14:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73A737B52B for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 01:14:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mellon@jurai.net) Received: (from mellon@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) id EAA58232 for chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 14 May 2000 04:14:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 04:14:42 -0400 From: Anatoly Vorobey To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514041442.A58200@sasami.jurai.net> References: <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <3.0.6.32.20000513180213.00894400@mail85.pair.com> <20000514023000.A16663@happy.checkpoint.com> <20000514051118.M22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <391E2C5B.D4EFB077@mail.ptd.net> <20000514093934.10200@techunix.technion.ac.il> <391E5B85.B761FFF6@mindspring.com> <20000514105349.A20904@happy.checkpoint.com> <391E5F5A.A8066271@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <391E5F5A.A8066271@mindspring.com>; from jhix@mindspring.com on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 01:10:02AM -0700 X-Disclaimer: I was young, I needed the money! Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You, W Gerald Hicks, were spotted writing this on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 01:10:02AM -0700: > > > Anyway, any such decisions are beyond the author's discretion once > > > they've assigned copyright to Richard M. (Uncle Joe) Stalin. > > > > The author doesn't have to assign copyright to anybody, and indeed > > rarely does. Ask Linus about copyrights on the Linux kernel. > > I'd rather ask Linus why his ego made him name it Linux and why he is so > clueless about revision control. Go ahead and ask him. Tell us what he said. These are good questions, too. > > And you are entitled to whatever comparisons that may cross your > > mind, however mind-boggingly stupid they are. Ain't freedom of > > speech great? > > That comparison was made in order to offend you. It only succeeded in irritating me, though. -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message