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Date:      Sun, 14 May 2000 01:20:24 +0000
From:      Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
Message-ID:  <20000514012024.A16224@happy.checkpoint.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000513104752.0447aa50@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:53:43AM -0600
References:  <4.3.1.2.20000513100518.0444c390@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <4.3.1.2.20000513100518.0444c390@localhost> <20000513215350.A6803@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <4.3.1.2.20000513104752.0447aa50@localhost>

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On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:53:43AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:

> (Remember, the stated 
> purpose of the GPL is to destroy programmers' livelihoods. 

This is one bit of silly nonsense I wish you would stop repeating.

> Thus,
> providing truly free alternatives to GNU code is in fact very useful.

What's very useful is writing new code for people to use. It's not
like there's any lack of goals in that direction. Let's concentrate on 
them.

-- 
Anatoly Vorobey,
mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton


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