From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 26 10:48:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D48156CE for ; Wed, 26 May 1999 10:48:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02591; Wed, 26 May 1999 10:56:05 -0700 Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 10:56:05 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Nathan Dorfman Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free VMWare and open BIOS! In-Reply-To: <19990526122522.A26225@rtfm.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org He's labouring under the belief that GPL authors seek out commercial code and attempt to subvert their markets by cloning the software. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet On Wed, 26 May 1999, Nathan Dorfman wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 02:54:29PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > > That's the purpose of the GPL: to destroy your markets and your livelihood. > > Making money by licensing software is evil, you see, so We Of The GNU Borg > > Collective must stop you by giving away what you are trying to sell. You > > Will Be Assimilated. > > How do you figure? They're not giving away what you're trying to sell. > They're giving away their own code. What is it that you're complaining > about? > > > --Electrocutis of Borg > > -- > Nathan Dorfman The statements and opinions in my > Unix Admin @ Frontline Communications public posts are mine, not FCC's. > "The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching > train." --/usr/games/fortune > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message