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From: fisher@ivy.dt.navy.mil
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd? (What to do?)
Date: 6 May 1993 15:17:49 GMT
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In article <1s8ir3$1e1d@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
|>
|>The flaw in this logic should be obvious.

So what.  Most of the arguements against the GPL have been flawed, too.
(I've never used the GPL on any of the software I've released).

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|>In article <1s8d6kINNbji@dtix.dt.navy.mil> fisher@ivy.dt.navy.mil
|>writes:
|>>
|>> Question:  Since so many 386BSD people are against the GPL, shouldn't
|>> those same people not use any GNU software to be consistant?  Such as
|>> gcc?  
|>
|>Question:  Since so many GPL supporters are against non-GPL software,
|>shouldn't those same people not use any non-GPL software to be
|>consistent?  Such as Unix, X, DOS, or most everything else?

But the GPL supporters have not been arguing against using non-GPL software.

-steve