Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:41:48 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Jeremy Karlson <karlj000@unbc.ca> Cc: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011220163646.01c749e0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112201202000.29122-100000@ugrad.unbc.ca> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011220065451.02653af0@localhost>
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At 01:09 PM 12/20/2001, Jeremy Karlson wrote: >I don't think "commercial" does it either. There can be commercially >created GPLed code - JFS, for example. JFS is not commercial. It is GPLed and thus cannot be sold for money. Yes, it was created by a commercial entity. But it is not commercial now. >> McKusick's essay in that book is worth a read. Stallman and Perens' >> contributions are pure propaganda. > >I'd like to take your opinion as one that matters, but the above sounds >like the statement of a person whose mind is set in one regard and rejects >all other opinions. Not so. Perens and Stallman's contributions to that book are not new material. They're the same deceptive rhetoric that both have always spouted. >Stallman and Perens essays may be completely preachy, >and I don't doubt that, but I'm sure there is still something interesting >and worth reading in them. The propaganda techniques are mildly interesting... but, again, you've seen them before if you've read anything else by these people. >What about the other contributors? Something, >say, that isn't about the GPL and BSDL fight? There's nothing in there about a "GPL and BSDL fight," unless you count the denigrating remarks about BSD by Stallman and Raymond. Except for McKusick's essay, which is a straightforward history, the book is steeply slanted toward the GPL, which most of the authors praise completely uncritically. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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