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Bob Keyes <bob at sinister.com> writes: > I am pretty unhappy with United Linux, and the next time I write software > I am going to make sure they can't do with my software what they've just > tried to do with Linux & GPL'd sofware. > > I'd rather linux remain 'minor league' then to become what they're trying > to make it. If they want software that they can do whatever they want > with, commercially, then they should just go grab BSD code and run with > it. That's what it's for. I remember when I first heard about GNU and the GPL; one of my friends in college gave me a BCS membership for christmas in 1984, and we went to the December 1984 BCS Macintosh meeting. After the meeting I was talking with Ric Ford and Rick LePage from BCS' MacTechGroup (the Macintosh Programmers SIG), and one of them gave me a copy of their "MacInTouch" zine. One of the papers they had published in it was the GNU Manifesto, in which RMS outlined a number of ways that the corporate world could try to co-opt the Free Software community. My concerns about UnitedLinux stem from the tone of the press releases, and discussions about it, which to me feel suspiciously similar to the potential threats to the community that RMS had outlined back then. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr at jabber.org / YAHOO abreauj Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 "An idealist is just a farsighted pragmatist." -Anon -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 344 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20020624/99c9f2d9/attachment.sig>
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