Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 09:57:19 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: <unknown@riverstyx.net>, Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free VMWare and open BIOS! Message-ID: <4.2.0.37.19990527095544.00b7e4a0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905261055300.2115-100000@hades.riverstyx.ne t> References: <19990526122522.A26225@rtfm.net>
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It's absolutely true. At LinuxWorld, for example, speakers rallied the
troops to take over the market for educational software. ("Give us the
children....") The agenda is -- again, explicitly -- to identify
markets, one at a time, and destroy them.
--Brett Glass
At 10:56 AM 5/26/99 -0700, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote:
>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 <nathan@rtfm.net> 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
> >
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