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From: Axel Boldt <boldt@math.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux vs whatever
Date: 29 Jan 1997 19:08:31 -0800
Organization: Univ of California at Santa Barbara, Dept of Mathematics
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"John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> writes:

> GPL is only a tool and not a religion (or hopefully so.)

Obviously, the GPL is a religion. It states a value (software
sharing), it tries to punish those who refuse to follow that value,
and it aims at world domination. As good a religion as any.
Or better.

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 Axel Boldt  *  boldt@math.ucsb.edu  *  http://www.math.ucsb.edu/%7Eboldt/