Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 11:48:29 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL issues (Was: More important Windows Refund Day coverage) Message-ID: <19990223114829.D93492@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990222143416.A25682@netmonger.net>; from Christopher Masto on Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 02:34:16PM -0500 References: <199902211924.OAA02025@y.dyson.net> <19990221180845.J93492@lemis.com> <199902211924.OAA02025@y.dyson.net> <19990222082525.A1429@ska.bsn> <4.1.19990221233032.03fffba0@mail.lariat.org> <19990222143416.A25682@netmonger.net>
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On Monday, 22 February 1999 at 14:34:16 -0500, Christopher Masto wrote: > Can't we stop all this nonsensical comparison of software licenses to > various "evil" political/economic systems, and just acknowledge that > we have differences of opinion when it comes to the way software > should be licensed? I think you're missing the point in the comparison with political systems. I wasn't claiming they were evil; both communism and anarchy have significant merits, they've just shown that they are failures as social systems. That doesn't mean that they need to fail as systems for writing software. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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