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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 20:00:38 -0500
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In article <32F54717.41C67EA6@freebsd.org>,
"John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> wrote:

>Actually, it is BSD freedom lovers who have the dissenting opinion,
>against the big, bad GPL  :-).  (BTW, I would
>have loved to work on Linux, but the license terms are yucky, and
>don't help one of my goals -- enabling lots of little start-ups
>with good quality OS code, with a non-GPL encumbered runtime.)

More power to ya.  I expect BSD will need all the help it can get
to prevent being crushed under the wheels of the big bad GPL self
replicating machine.