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Re: Linus Geek of the Week

Subject: Re: Linus Geek of the Week
From: "markw-4" <user=5@nabble.blu.org>
Date: Tue Jul 22 08:48:15 2008

 > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:25 AM,  <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 3:47 PM,  <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>>> 1. Use of the GPL. 
>> 
>> While I am a proponent of GPL, I don't agree. The AT&amp;T suit and 
>> licenses, 
>> more than anything else, prevented development of BSD over Linux. Had 
>> AT&amp;T 
>> let BSD be unencumbered earlier, there would be no Linux. 
> 
> I don't think the hobbyist user/programmer really cared that much 
> about the lawsuit   (Look at how people routinely 
> violate patents on OSS codecs.)

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