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Date:      Mon, 15 May 2000 12:00:37 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Paul Hart <hart@iserver.com>
Cc:        mike@minivend.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: (forw) Back door in Minivend
Message-ID:  <4.3.1.2.20000515115811.045e6690@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005150959110.23614-100000@anchovy.orem.iser ver.com>
References:  <4.3.1.2.20000515094342.045eb7e0@localhost>

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At 10:04 AM 5/15/2000, Paul Hart wrote:
   
>On Mon, 15 May 2000, Brett Glass wrote:
>
> > According to Bruce Perens, the next version of the GPL will impose
> > nasty conditions upon service providers and merchants who use GPLed
> > code, such as requiring them to reveal all of their in-house additions
> > to it even if they do not redistribute it.
>
>And how much FUD spinning is that?  SPIN IT BABY!!

It's not FUD; it is the absolute truth. I have the tape of the session
at the February LinuxWorld in which Bruce said that -- emphatically.

One of these days, people will begin to get the idea that the GPL is
not actually about freedom. It is, rather, a weapon of spite and an
attempt to accumulate power and control.

--Brett Glass




If nothing else, the brain is an educational toy. -- Tom Robbins



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