Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license

[Jon Portnoy]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:48:04AM -0600, Jay Maynard wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:40:33PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 February 2004 01:35 pm, Jay Maynard wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:12:10PM +0100, John Nilsson wrote:
> > > > Because of this decision, the GNU system is not the same as the
> > > > collection of all GNU software. The GNU system includes programs that
> > > > are not GNU software, programs that were developed by other people and
> > > > projects for their own purposes, but which we can use because they are
> > > > free software." - Richard Stallman
> > > > (http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html)
> > > This is as morally reprehensible as SCO's claim that anything any of their
> > > licensees wrote for their Unix distributions is part of Unix.
> > You realize that the only difference between that description and what distros
> > do is that GNU wrote more of the core OS? Are you going to apply the same
> > statement to Gentoo, RedHat, and all the other distros who have written even
> > *less* of their OS's software?
>
> Stallman's claiming credit for all of Linux, anywhere it appears,

Only when trolls intentionally misinterpret his statements that way.

Could you please take trolling to comp.os.linux.advocacy or 
gnu.misc.discuss or some other forum where nobody has anything better to 
do than troll and be trolled? Thanks.

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Jon Portnoy
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