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Date:      Wed, 06 Oct 1999 16:34:32 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   This would be funny if it weren't so true
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19991006162742.041343e0@localhost>

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Just got a copy of this satirical post pointing out the similarity between 
the GPL and a chain letter. Hey, maybe the GPL *is* really a chain letter 
in disguise! Edited to correct a few spelling and grammatical errors.

--Brett


The GNU Public Letter

This License was sent to you for good luck. Copy this License, attach it to 
all of your computer source files and publish them on the Internet. If 
enough people do this, everyone will begin to wish you good luck, that is, 
good luck trying to get a job as a computer programmer! This loop was 
started by an American computer scientist with bad hygiene. It should 
iterate three times before terminating. terminating. terminating. 
terminating. terminatin<Ctrl><Alt><Del>. Damn buggy GNU software.

You may modify your copy or copies of this License or any portion of it, 
thus forming a work based on the License, and copy and distribute such 
modifications or work, provided that you give all of your money to the GNU 
Collective. Do it within twenty-four hours and count nine years and you 
will have some great good fortune, mostly in your fortune cookie file. Do 
not break the License, for whoever does will have bad luck. Linus Torvalds 
placed this license on Minix. He became renowned as a genius, and was 
mobbed by screaming teenage girls. Anonymous Coward threw this message away 
and was flamed to death on Slashdot.

The chain grows a definite power over the expected code. Do not break the 
chain. See what happens in the 9th year. Sucker. 


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