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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!insync!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.89.123.24!nntp.inet.fi!news.csc.fi!nokia.fi!ntc.nokia.com!news From: Alex Jenner <alex.jenner@ntc.nokia.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Offtopic: was Linux vs whatever Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 19:43:09 +1200 Organization: Nokia Telecommunications Lines: 49 Message-ID: <32FADD0D.59DD@ntc.nokia.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5cmvnk$kkh@cynic.portal.ca> <5cr297$ied@garuda.synet.net> <5ctv57$sre@troma.rv.tis.com> <5davd2$2mjs@usenet1y.prodigy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: auckland148.ntc.nokia.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (WinNT; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156465 comp.os.linux.networking:67432 comp.os.linux.setup:95733 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2296 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52017 comp.os.os2.advocacy:265983 bill davidsen wrote: > > In article <5ctv57$sre@troma.rv.tis.com>, > Mark Sienkiewicz <mark@troma.rv.tis.com> wrote: > > | The two answers are: > | > | BSD: I give you this for free because I want to make the world > | a better place ; you can do what you want with it. > | > | GPL: I give you this for free because I want to make the world > | a better place ; you may not make it your own and sell it. > > Actually, if you read it, what it says is that you can't prevent > someone else from selling it, too, or from seeing the source code. > People make lots of money selling GPLd code, look at Linux CDs. > > The only place I ever had a problem with GPL was the library, and > the LGPL solved that. The fact that it took years of people telling > RMS he was wrong is not relevant ;-) > -- > -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) > "As a software development model, Anarchy does not scale well." > -Dave Welch -- Quoting the Linux FAQ (does _anybody_ read the FAQ's): "Note that discussion about the merits or otherwise of the GPL should be posted to gnu.misc.discuss and not to the comp.os.linux groups." This does not belong in comp.os.linux.setup - in fact, with the possible exception of comp.unix.bsd.misc, I suspect that this thread doesn't belong in any of newsgroups it has been posted to. So, without wishing to offend anyone, would it be possible to take this thread someplace else? The similar "Linux vs BSD" thread could most likely be moved from comp.os.linux.setup to say, comp.os.linux.advocacy Regards +----------------------------------------------------------+ ! Alex Jenner ! ! alex.jenner@ntc.nokia.com ! ! Witty quote under construction ! +----------------------------------------------------------+ ! Speaking for myself - not for Nokia Telecommunications ! +----------------------------------------------------------+