Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 03:02:35 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL rant number 31391 (was: Jordan Hubbard on Darwin) Message-ID: <v04220816b63ce4583662@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001118184345.045f1d90@localhost> References: <20001119111646.C5877@echunga.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001118142924.00cb6850@localhost> <20001119111646.C5877@echunga.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001118184345.045f1d90@localhost>
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At 6:47 PM -0700 2000/11/18, Brett Glass wrote: > It has to do with the big picture. The BSD community should not be dependent > upon a group that seeks to snuff it out. It needs its own shells, its own > compilers, its own tools. Both for its own sake and for the sake of users > who would otherwise be locked into the FSF's software. I'm sorry. BSD and GPL are not mutually exclusive, regardless of what you may think. If they were mutually exclusive, then we'd already be dead, because the GPL and products licensed under it are far larger than BSD and the products licensed under it, and that situation will never change. If you truly want to tilt at that windmill, I suggest you go off and write a BSD C compiler (and C++, and Fortran, and the debugger, and the complete development environment) that doesn't depend on any GPL code, and you'll be in your grave before me. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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