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From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 18:12:20 -0500
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Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> 
> In article <32F54717.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>,
>         John S. Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> >> Explain how Russell wasn't right a year
> >> ago. Dredge up your original answer from the archives if it'll help.
> >> Demonstrate that you can deal with opposition without resorting to
> >> whining about when you first encountered the dissent.
> 
> >Actually, it is BSD freedom lovers who have the dissenting opinion,
> >against the big, bad GPL self replicating machine :-).
> 
> Rusell made a comment.
>
Okay...

>
> You replied with a personal attack.
>
Nope, that wasn't a personal attack.   If you see that as a personal
attack, there is a problem with you.  GPL is a big, bad self
replicating machine -- I didn't say that you were :-).

>
> I asked you to deal with his objection.
>
Please post it as a question, specifying exactly the
context and contents that you are referring to.  You will
not get a serious response from me without a fully specified
and qualified question.

>
> You replied by changing the subject.
>
Please state why being generally against GPL because of it's
undesirable properties is whining.  GPL has some extremely
undesirable properties, one of which is best described as
attempting to cause people to have to disclose their
hard earned IP, for example.

John