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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!mr.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.iquest.net!not-for-mail 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 Organization: John S. Dyson's home machine Lines: 43 Message-ID: <32FA6554.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32EE6844.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <E504AI.Jsu@bigbird.telly.org> <32F54717.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <E576qq.5ss@bigbird.telly.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dyson.iquest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156225 comp.os.linux.networking:67307 comp.os.linux.setup:95555 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2250 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