Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:17:18 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: gh <grasshacker@linkfast.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme>
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gh wrote:
>
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>
> Curious: If many people are not in favor (for lack of a better phrase) of
> GNU, why do we still use tools developed under its ideology?
>
Because in many cases there is no other choice and because in some cases
the code is actually good.
> As above, people are comparing this group to a group of "communists" and
> Stallman to Stalin. Who are we (or 'these people') to continue *using* GNU
> tools and things development along its ideology?
>
The comparison is not unreasonable, it even is healthy..look in the
archives, I worte something about this for the Daemonnews some time ago.
OTOH, you don't need to agree with their license if you only execute the
binaries, without redistribution and without looking at the source.
> This is almost like saying: Okay, we *really really* don't like you people,
> but as long as you are developing stuff, and are giving it away for free, we
> will gladly exploit this to further ourselves.
>
Of course that's OK! There's no double moral in it.
cheers,
Pedro.
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