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From: cc_paul@rcvie.co.at (Wolf Paul)
Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes
Message-ID: <1993Apr20.135723.752@rcvie.co.at>
Sender: cc_paul@rcvie.co.at (Wolf N. Paul)
Reply-To: cc_paul@rcvie.co.at (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: Alcatel Austria Research Centre
References: <C5poEp.8Jw@kithrup.com> <C5qCnn.5Kw@sugar.neosoft.com> <D87-MAL.93Apr19230114@byse.nada.kth.se>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 13:57:23 GMT
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In article <D87-MAL.93Apr19230114@byse.nada.kth.se> d87-mal@byse.nada.kth.se (Mats Löfkvist) writes:
> (In reply to a complaint about the GNU GPL)
>
>Why is it so hard to understand that code from the FSF comes with a licence
>you have to accept if you want to use it? Is it because the code "is there"
>in front of you, looking so available? Most people annoyed by the GPL terms
>sounds like children in a candy store when they are told the candy is not
>free to take just because it is lying there under their noses.
Maybe because chief proponents of the FSF assume such a morally superior,
holier-than-thou attitude about their supposedly "free" software which
in reality isn't free at all but encumbered with a rather complex set
of rules?
The problem with the candy store you mention above is that it sports a
great big sign, "Free Candy", and once you're inside you find out that
that is a bunch of baloney, it isn't free, but has strings attached.
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V Wolf N. Paul, Computer Center wnp@rcvie.co.at
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