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Date:      Sun, 23 Jan 2000 23:02:02 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: UCITA (Important)
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In-Reply-To: <20000124112548.D2398@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com>
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At 08:25 PM 1/23/2000 , Greg Lehey wrote:

> > Why mention some restrictive licenses (e.g. the Microsoft EULAs)
> > and not others (e.g. the GPL)?
>
>Because you need to keep your audience's attention.  Perpetual
>GNU-bashing will just have a large number of people saying "Oh,
>Brett's turning this into an anti-GPL diatribe again", and stop
>reading.

Opposing restrictive licenses -- whether they're the Microsoft
EULA or the GPL -- isn't "bashing" or a "diatribe." It's
good sense.

--Brett



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