Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:07:42 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman now claims authorship of Linux Message-ID: <15076.46526.386033.605782@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010423165233.00b0b870@mail85.pair.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010416114300.04d00640@localhost> <3.0.6.32.20010423165233.00b0b870@mail85.pair.com>
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G. Adam Stanislav <adam@whizkidtech.net> types: > At 13:48 16-04-2001 -0400, Joseph Mallett wrote: > >Bill Gates is hardly RMS' opposite. The GPL is every bit infectious and > >virus-like as Windows. If anything, they're twins, just don't suggest it > >to RMS. Bill Gates, however, would probably have the sense to realise it > >was true. > Personally, I think of them as two faces of the same coin. As such, > they cannot exist without each other. Well, at least RMS could not > exist without Bill Gates. That's about how I feel about it. Both are seeking to turn software into a commodity distributed under their control. > Makes me wish we did not rely on the GNU C compiler so much: Next RMS > will call himself a principal FreeBSD developer! I believe he did do a lot of work on the C compiler, so he has contributed a lot to FreeBSD. As for using another C compiler - did any of the other free compilers survive to this era sans the GPL? <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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