From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 18 1:17: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9A5437B43C for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 01:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trevor@jpj.net) Received: from localhost (trevor@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3I8Gu524084; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:16:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 04:16:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Trevor Johnson To: Brett Glass Cc: Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010418003011.045ef3b0@localhost> Message-ID: <20010418032018.S12981-100000@blues.jpj.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Stallman's rhetoric is doublespeak. The truth is that he condones > the selling of plastic disks (a low-profit, low-skill endeavor) but > not the selling of software. (According to the GPL, GPLed software > itself may NOT be licensed for money.) The only parts of the GPL I see that mention money are: You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee. and [...]give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code [...] Are you saying that hiring someone to make changes to a GPL'd program would violate this second provision? > He approves of the trade in disks > because (a) it furthers his agenda; (b) it allows the FSF to make a bit > of cash; and (c) he knows that the "parasites" (his own word) who sell > disks, such as Red Hat, will not be able to make a living as soon > as high bandwidth connections to the Net are ubiquitous. I guess the FSF will have to run off donations when that happens. > Gates' statement is carefully contrived propaganda that attempts > to justify the actions of a monopolist. At first it seemed to me that he understood that a monopoly needs a healthy host to feed off. On second thought, perhaps he has other ideas. -- Trevor Johnson http://jpj.net/~trevor/gpgkey.txt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message