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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!cynic.portal.ca!not-for-mail From: cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) 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: Re: Linux vs whatever Date: 6 Feb 1997 12:03:17 -0800 Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc. Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5ddde5$mp0@cynic.portal.ca> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5cr297$ied@garuda.synet.net> <5ctuft$s4p@cynic.portal.ca> <5dav0r$13pm@usenet1y.prodigy.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:157643 comp.os.linux.networking:68036 comp.os.linux.setup:96668 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2451 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52545 comp.os.os2.advocacy:267073 In article <5dav0r$13pm@usenet1y.prodigy.net>, bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> wrote: :In article <5ctuft$s4p@cynic.portal.ca>, :Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.portal.ca> wrote: : :| Wrong. I like to release truly free software. The GPL doesn't let :| me do that. : :Think about that... you want to right to release the code you wrote :under the terms you decide, and you object to someone else issuing :code they wrote under the terms that they decide. I have *never* objected to someone else issuing code under any terms they want. I'm just saying that the GPL'd software is not very free at all. cjs -- Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.