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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!ix.netcom.com!howland.erols.net!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!nntp.ucsb.edu!usenet 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 Lines: 11 Sender: boldt@emile Message-ID: <ywtwwsv507k.fsf@math.ucsb.edu> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <5c155c$p6u@raven.eva.net> <5ckmds$mbl@josie.abo.fi> <32EE0434.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: emile.math.ucsb.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:2133 comp.os.linux.advocacy:81703 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:51386 comp.os.os2.advocacy:264436 "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. -- Axel Boldt * boldt@math.ucsb.edu * http://www.math.ucsb.edu/%7Eboldt/