Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:13:42 +1300 From: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <3C1ED086.725352BC@outpost.co.nz> References: <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> <4hzo4hyv3c.o4h@localhost.localdomain>
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"Gary W. Swearingen" wrote:
> so far into the tent and with so many people seemingly uncaring and
> uninformed about having non-copyleft software swept into the dustbin
> of history as better copyleft software replaces it piece by piece.
If the software's better, isn't that the point? Is it really the smart
approach to choose the worse solution to a problem just because of the
license it uses?
> It's suprised me that it took almost 5 months on the MLs and 6 months
> before that on the NG for me to see the subject come up in even this
> half-serious -chat thread.
It's a matter of history. After so many endless threads over the last
few years on the evils (or otherwise) of the GPL, usually with Brett
Glass endlessly pushing his point of view to allcomers, I think you'll
find that most people subscribed to -chat are heartily sick of the
subject.
-- C.
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Craig Harding crh@outpost.co.nz ICQ# 26701833
Outpost Digital Media Ltd http://www.outpost.co.nz
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