From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 15 15:58:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (ftp.webmaster.com [209.10.218.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D780637B909 for ; Mon, 15 May 2000 15:58:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Mon, 15 May 2000 15:57:15 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Rahul Siddharthan" Cc: Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 15:58:22 -0700 Message-ID: <002401bfbec1$11ff8ff0$021d85d1@youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <20000515125628.A48320@physics.iisc.ernet.in> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > In fact this kind of head-in-the-sand misinformation about the GPL, > which is so common in the BSD world, is why I didn't want to get into > the argument again. This is not the only kind of misinformation: > people also keep alleging that the GPL forces you to give your program > to anyone who asks for it, and so on. Nobody who's read the GPL can > believe such things, and it's not worth arguing with people who haven't. Surely you are smart enough to know that saying, "That's as stupid as " is not a refutation. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message