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Date:      Wed, 18 Apr 2001 00:53:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re:  Stallman now claims authorship of Linux
Message-ID:  <20010418002742.A12981-100000@blues.jpj.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010416155048.04c6f6f0@localhost>

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Brett Glass wrote:

> At 11:48 AM 4/16/2001, Joseph Mallett wrote:
>
> >Bill Gates is hardly RMS' opposite. The GPL is every bit infectious and
> >virus-like as Windows. If anything, they're twins, just don't suggest it
> >to RMS.
>
> There's another similarity, come to think of it: They both have as much
> money as they want (though the amounts are vastly different), but
> begrudge anyone else the opportunity to make any.

That's not what they themselves say:

	http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
	http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/bill-economist.asp

(the pages where Stallman puts on his halo and Gates stuffs a trash can
with light bulbs -- http://www.stallman.org/saint.html and
http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/default.asp -- are much funnier).
-- 
Trevor Johnson
http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt


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