Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:21:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tedm@toybox.placo.com (Ted Mittelstaedt) Cc: s337240@student.uq.edu.au (Trent Waddington), freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Message-ID: <200102210821.BAA10627@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <003001c09bc9$314aeea0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> from "Ted Mittelstaedt" at Feb 20, 2001 09:43:18 PM
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[ ... ideo-logic ... ] > I've read this statement 6 times putting myself into the most convoluted > frame of mind possible and I still can't understand how this undermines > the goals of GPL, even if people start doing what Stallman says they can do. The point is that it can result in proprietary code taking advantage of GPL'ed code. You have to understand the very big difference between "use" an "utilize". It's a dictionary argument. > Java's just another tool, nowhere near as popular as C. It's getting close > to peaking anyway, in 10 years it's going to be in just another of those > cubbyholes that Perl, Sed, Awk, PHP, HTML and all the rest of them are in. Java's primary value is as a cross-platform API. Eventually, with the notable exception of bytecode rendered to run on a handful of proprietary processors, it will all be compiled code. I keep meaning to write a science fiction novel predicated on the idea that everything standardizes to a single instruction set, and then someone comes up with a new processor instruction set, and uses it in the context of a crime. One of the hero's helpers (the moral equivalent of Perry Mason's Paul Drake) has to decode the instruction set to figure out what it means. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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