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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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