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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:34987 comp.os.386bsd.questions:1750 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!usenet.ufl.edu!zoyd!kem From: kem@zoyd.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Kelly Murray) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: GNUified Linux vs FREE 386BSD Date: 19 Apr 1993 18:49:18 GMT Organization: University of Florida Lines: 17 Sender: kem@zoyd (Kelly Murray) Distribution: world Message-ID: <1qus7eINNcib@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> References: <1993Apr15.225354.18654@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1993Apr17.161516.2794@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Apr17.175431.25015@coe.montana.edu> <1993Apr17.190517.4276@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1993Apr17.205715.11278@coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: zoyd.prl.ufl.edu A big part of GNUism is to prevent people from taking unrestricted-copyright programs, and creating restricted-copyright or proprietary programs. It is ironic that GNUites are violating their own philosophy by converting unrestricted software into restricted software. Software that is ``really free'', that is, released without restrictions, provides benefits to EVERYBODY. Everybody includes people who create GNUified software, as well as those who create commercial software. As an aside, because GNUified software releases source code, it is easy to incorporate changes made to really-free programs back into the original code, as copyright does not cover cases where there is substantially no other way to do something, which would cover most bugfix-type changes. -Kelly (kem@cis.ufl.edu)