Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 08:05:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> To: redprince@redprince.net Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514150551.8232A37B6A2@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000514084158.0089fb50@mail85.pair.com> (redprince@redprince.net)
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> > Well put. :) And quite important. My own tendency to take a stand on GPL is > motivated by the dictum, "all that is needed for evil to triumph is for > good people to do nothing." > Adam, please, a little perspective. GPL and Stallman are not evil. Clearly do not agree with them, but debasing the meaning of the word evil is the wrong thing to do. Consider some of the evil behaviors people have engaged in, and compare them to the GPL and Stallman. The same word should not be used to describe both. Once a person characterized those that have different views as evil, discussion is no longer reasonable and people begin to turn to other methods to deal with what they have determined to be evil. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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