Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:33:48 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) Message-ID: <20000707093348.A3336@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706203912.047e4f00@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 08:46:05PM -0600 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000706193313.04a8ca40@localhost> <Your <4.3.2.7.2.20000706103005.00e05660@localhost> <53082.962927902@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706193313.04a8ca40@localhost> <20000707074448.A4511@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <4.3.2.7.2.20000706203912.047e4f00@localhost>
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> Remember, most open source software consists of copies of commercial > products. The commercial products need to be there first. And the I never knew that. I'm thinking of TeX, vi, emacs, most email/internet software, etc. What would I have done without those kind and generous commercial developers. Since you take everything I write literally, I suppose I must return the compliment and believe you too, but I wonder where Knuth stole *his* ideas from.... > Finally, too much of the software out there that claims to be "Open > Source" is not Open Source at all. It's GPLed. (The GPL violates the Doesn't bother me. Besides, are you saying that if something is GPL'd, the FreeBSD binary doesn't count as a "native port"? > claims to the contrary, GPLed software is NOT Open Source.) There > isn't enough TRUE open source software out there -- at least not > yet -- to fill all the needs most of us have. So go out and write your own and put what licence you like on it. The so-called "linux crowd" is doing that, and they're quite entitled to use the GPL if they prefer to. And many FreeBSD users are quite happy to use the same software via the ports. The only way to change that is to do better yourself, not to whine about how the GPL is taking over the world. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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