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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:54:34 -0700
To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Your misconceptions about the GPL 
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At 10:31 PM 11/22/1999 -0600, David Kelly wrote:

>Brett, you've fallen into the trap layed by the left-wingers of equating
>"Open Source" with "Freely Redistributable". Any vendor who includes 
>source code with the product is "Open Source" (or should be able to 
>wear such a label). 

While including the source code to ROMs is a good thing, IMHO, it is not 
what is commonly called "open source" nowadays. Another term is probably
needed to describe this practice.

--Brett Glass



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