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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux:37049 comp.os.386bsd.questions:2147 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!usc!cheshire.oxy.edu!opus From: opus@cheshire.oxy.edu (David Giller) Subject: Re: Summary of Linux vs. 386BSD vs. Commercial Unixes Message-ID: <1993May3.093155.10176@cheshire.oxy.edu> Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 References: <C63spB.BD@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <9304299328@monty.apana.org.au> Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 09:31:55 GMT Lines: 37 newton@monty.apana.org.au (Mark Newton) wrote: >To expand further on the point I made in response to Blair: Copylefting >the software that you write involves implicit restrictions upon its >distribution. Notably, its distribution is prohibited unless source >is provided with it. Basically, whoever distributes the software you >write is legally obliged to make it as easy for someone else to obtain >as it was for them to obtain. > >I (and other BSDites) have been arguing against the GPL because I don't want >to force those restrictions, or any other restrictions, upon people who >choose to distribute /my/ software. I want to make it completely, >utterly, totally free. It doesn't matter whether IBM chooses to hijack >it, enlarge its size and reduce its speed by factors of twenty and sell >it for half a million dollars - I just don't care. But if they gave it away for FREE, including source, and insured that noone else charged for it, you'd take issue. Yeah, makes sense to me. >While people like Blair MacIntyre continue to confuse the issues at hand >by posting irrelevancies, people like you don't have a prayer of >understanding these simple concepts. > >Yours in illumination, > - mark You arrogant fool. That's all I can say. You give them the rights to do anything to your code, INCLUDING RESTRICT IT IN ANY WAY, and then you get angry and insult them when they do. If that's illuminated, I want to be dense. -Dave -- David Giller, Box 134 | Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light Occidental College | bulb? A: Three. One to replace the bulb, and two to 1600 Campus Road | fend off all the Californians trying to share the Los Angeles, CA 90041 | experience. -------------------------------opus@oxy.edu