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Subject: Re: FSF v Cisco on GPL reached settlement
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Note that the FSF says that "compliance" is their number one goal. 
In other words, they are saying, "Bend over."

This is one reason why I am very glad about the work on "un-GNUed" 
(but fully compatible) versions of utilities such as grep. I am 
looking forward to the day when I can build FreeBSD with a 
completely BSD-licensed toolchain.

--Brett Glass

At 06:36 PM 5/20/2009, Chuck Robey wrote:

>I expect that one major fallout of this is going to be, a number of companies
>waking up and realizing that they maybe should quit waiting for the other shoe
>to drop, and take some sort of pre-emptive action.