Date: 19 Dec 2001 21:30:41 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <mm4rmmxxtq.rmm@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20011218181554.00d6f900@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011217221801.02841bc0@localhost> <20011218121011.E21649@monorchid.lemis.com> <4hzo4hyv3c.o4h@localhost.localdomain> <4.3.2.7.2.20011217221801.02841bc0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218181554.00d6f900@localhost>
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes: > Actually, his stated goal is to go farther than that. He wants to > reduce that pay to the point where they can BARELY earn a living. ... > attain them. He wishes the same fate for all programmers. He wants > "high-paying" jobs for programmers, regardless of skill level, to be > "banned." I saw no evidence for that in your RMS quote (clipped). I can only agree to the extent that the high pay is a function of royalty fees on closed software. Why wouldn't he be happy to see a bunch of highly-paid copyleft programmers? (Like we have at NASA (GNU/Linux drivers) and some other Fed agency (Secure Linux?) -- ironic since US Gov. is required by law to publish into the PD.) > Ironically, he calls commercial developers "hoarders" when in > fact the FSF has the largest hoard of software in the world. Perhaps it means something different in GNU-speak. > >Wrong animal. It's a gnu. > > Also known as a "wildebeest." Coincidence? (I though it was "wildebeast". Thanks for the proper spelling.) I don't know what coincidence you might be referring to, but I guess that GNU might have been born of "Guild for a New Unix" before it was decided that the "guild" concept wouldn't propagandise well while the cutsie recursive thing would. Well, the concept would, just not the word; "community" is so much more PC, if less precise. Just a guess. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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