From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 19 16:25: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7ACA15164 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 16:24:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA19764; Wed, 19 May 1999 17:24:49 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.37.19990519172059.0460df10@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.37 (Beta) Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 17:24:40 -0600 To: "G. Adam Stanislav" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Free VMWare and open BIOS! Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990519164120.00988a50@mail.bfm.org> References: <4.2.0.37.19990519133227.045d7cb0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:41 PM 5/19/99 -0500, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: >In what ways? I can see how it will hurt Linux and Red Hat itself in the >long run, but how will it hurt all of us? (I am not arguing, I am asking.) The goal of the GPL is to destroy markets and to destroy choice. It is a weapon, crafted by Richard Stallman, against developers and vendors of commercial software, against whom he has an abiding grudge. This grudge began when the first commercial spinoff from the MIT AI Lab -- Symbolics -- refused to give away all of their source code. Read Stallman's "GNU Manifesto" for more. The section about programming being no more valuable than "standing on a corner making funny faces" is particularly telling. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message