From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 6 15:35:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A28A1577A for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:35:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA14417 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:34:36 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991006162742.041343e0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 16:34:32 -0600 To: chat@freebsd.org From: Brett Glass Subject: This would be funny if it weren't so true Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message