Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 00:08:23 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL rant number 31391 (was: Jordan Hubbard on Darwin) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20001119000021.045baab0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20001119165527.L52433@echunga.lemis.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001118222633.046bb550@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20001118184345.045f1d90@localhost> <20001119111646.C5877@echunga.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001118142924.00cb6850@localhost> <20001119111646.C5877@echunga.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001118184345.045f1d90@localhost> <v04220816b63ce4583662@[195.238.1.121]> <4.3.2.7.2.20001118222633.046bb550@localhost>
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At 11:25 PM 11/18/2000, Greg Lehey wrote: >Grrr. If you can rant about GPL, let me at least vent my spleen that >you have mangled Brad's message by removing the line breaks. What >junk did that? > >> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Looks like you've answered your own question. Yes, I happen to be working on a Windows client attached to my FreeBSD server. Sorry if things wrapped oddly; I try to remember to force Eudora not to wrap messages. >You complain about the GPL, but you're happy with Microsoft? That I >really don't understand. Frankly, I'd like to eliminate software from both the GPL *and* Microsoft from my infrastructure, because both organizations engage in unethical, predatory, and destructive practices. But for now, there's even GPLed stuff in FreeBSD (sigh).... >> Seriously: Linux was only started in the early 90's, and GCC in the >> 80's. There's no need to exceed one's lifespan to produce BETTER >> code, so long as there's a concerted effort to make FreeBSD free. > >Well, I thought we had that effort, and that it had succeeded. I >suppose it all depends on who makes the rules. FreeBSD is not free so long as it depends upon non-free software. GPLed software is not free, despite Stallman's rhetoric. A truly free software license places NO restrictions on what you can do with the code -- only upon what you can do to the programmer (e.g. you may be required to give him credit or not to sue him for bugs). --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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