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%% Jay Maynard <jmaynard@××××××××.cx> writes: |
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jm> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:12:10PM +0100, John Nilsson wrote: |
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>> Because of this decision, the GNU system is not the same as the |
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>> collection of all GNU software. The GNU system includes programs that |
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>> are not GNU software, programs that were developed by other people and |
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>> projects for their own purposes, but which we can use because they are |
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>> free software." - Richard Stallman |
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>> (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html) |
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jm> This is as morally reprehensible as SCO's claim that anything any |
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jm> of their licensees wrote for their Unix distributions is part of |
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jm> Unix. |
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Golly, I guess Gentoo must be even _more_ "morally reprehensible" than |
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either the FSF or SCO, eh? |
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I mean, they create a system that includes all kinds of free software |
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written by other people and they call it "Gentoo" without any permission |
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at all from all those developers! The horror! |
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At least the GNU folks actually _DO_ have copyright to the large |
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majority of the code in what they call "the GNU system"; the same can't |
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be said for Gentoo. |
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Just put down the soapbox... slowly... good... now back away... |
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Paul D. Smith <psmith@××××××××××××××.com> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools |
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"Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist |
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