Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:37:07 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen), freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ESR/OSI's Unix/Linux-history-laden treatise on SCO vs. IBM Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030520223347.02d03490@localhost> In-Reply-To: <rasmrax1s8.mra@localhost.localdomain>
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At 11:51 AM 5/19/2003, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > In his wrap-up, he gives us this copyleftic whopper: "We wrote our > Unix and Linux code as a gift and an expression of art, to be > enjoyed by our peers and used by others for all licit purposes both > non-profit and for-profit." That really IS a whopper. The GPL ensures that Linux certainly CANNOT be used "for all licit purposes both non-profit and for-profit." And ESR knows it. This demonstrates his hypocrisy and that of the OSI: they refuse to admit that the GPL is destructive and violates their own "Open Source Definition." --Brett Glass
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