Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:54:30 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@home.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010530225235.048b5bb0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010529194223.P3636@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010529112012.052768c0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105252316300.294-100000@molly.telia.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010527082742.049003f0@localhost> <20010527172838.A11174@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528020324.0487b570@localhost> <20010528140153.A58103@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20010528153532.0488ac10@localhost> <20010529112302.A3636@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010529112012.052768c0@localhost>
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At 11:42 AM 5/29/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >I don't care. Rather, I'm quite happy with that. If I were writing >a commercial quality word processor for free, the GPL is the licence >I'd choose. Alas, you've been a GPL zealot since I've first seen your postings here. It is a testament to the tolerance of the BSD community that you haven't been sent packing. >Would you rather pay $5000 per seat or whatever it was for crap like >CDE? That's where we'd be if the GPL'd alternatives didn't exist. Bull. This is no more true than a claim that we'd all have to buy Solaris were it not for Linux. Thanks to the BSDs, there is a truly free alternative. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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