Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 10:37:57 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free VMWare and open BIOS! Message-ID: <4.2.0.37.19990519103533.00b3d380@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95q.990519121509.445A-100000@marple.umd.edu> References: <4.2.0.37.19990519093547.04100900@localhost>
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At 12:16 PM 5/19/99 -0400, James Howard wrote: >And that is why you should at least email those people involved and show >them why this (more than most any other software project) should be using >a Berkeley license. I doubt that this would do much good at this point. The page makes very frequent mention of the fact that the project is being sponsored and supported by Red Hat. This is the sad and scary thing about the GPL. To paraphrase the old commercial for insect killer, it checks in but it doesn't check out. And where it checks in, it destroys livelihoods and alternatives. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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