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Date:      Mon, 08 Feb 1999 04:42:44 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GPL *again* (was: New CODA release)
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990208043419.0460cbe0@mail.lariat.org>
In-Reply-To: <19990207225001.M27505@orcrist.mediacity.com>
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At 10:50 PM 2/7/99 -0800, Gregory Sutter wrote:
 
>> it's very important that we resist the GPL -- born of spite and
>> popularized by sheer accident -- before we REALLY start to see
>> negative effects.
>
>Some people don't believe that we will. 

You're absolutely entitled to that opinion. 

I say we're seeing evidence already. What I say is not a "script,"
however. It's true that I've repeated some of the information
about these issues in several forums, but that's because I think
the issue is important. I was also one of the first people to
detail why I thought Microsoft's anti-competitive practices were
harmful and should be curtailed, and met with a similar response. 
(This was before the days when Internet access was common;
it happened on CompuServe.)

Again, you're entitled to disagree. But please do consider what
I say not as a matter of "religion" but as a cool, reasoned view
from someone who makes his predictions very carefully and after
a LOT of consideration.

--Brett


"Rules? This is the Internet." -- Dan Gillmor

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