Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 14:35:08 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZDNet columnist bashes Apple for using BSD Message-ID: <3AF07D8C.E2A69474@acuson.com> References: <200105022027.OAA27329@lariat.org>
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Brett Glass wrote: > ZDNet Linux columnist Even Leibowitz bashes Apple for not using > GPLed software as the basis for OS X. According to Leibowitz, > Apple is e-vile because it used open source code so as to > avoid re-writing the wheel.... Horrors! Folks here might > want to comment in the Talkback about this. All of the columnists at ZDNet are a shill for someone or another. Most of them are shills for Microsoft. Evan is a shill for GNU. If Evan thinks Apple is evil for not re-writing the wheel, then he doesn't know the first thing about Free Software. Of course, I also think a lot of people in the FSF don't know the first thing about Free Software either, but that's another story. Unless you are an incredibly shallow person, your freedom is completely unaffected by the licensing of the software you use. If you disagree with the amount of *utility* a license permits, then simply don't use that software. Don't go around determining how much utility other people need from their software. And don't go around proclaiming this software holy and that software diabolical based on its licensing. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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