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Article #2338Re: Mindspring?
From: John Miller
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 00:00
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Grok the destroyer (mayhem@netcom.com) wrote: : In article <knag11jbs3.fsf@xena.mindspring.com>, : Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.com> wrote: : > : >Since you're being a pedant... Linux is not public domain. It's : >just free. There's a big difference. : > : Public Domain, Free.. its all accessable without charge, don't devolve : into freeware vs demoware . From the user's point of view, they may be functionally identical, but It's a rather important distinction to the software creator or owner; when something is put into (or falls into) the public domain, its creator or owner basically loses all rights to it. -- John Miller, N4VU Linux! Fayetteville jsm@n4vu.Atl.GA.US DoD #1942 (Atlanta) jsm@mindspring.com IZCC #766 GA, US
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,bbdcf0c21e896572 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: fc7b2,bbdcf0c21e896572 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc7b2,public From: jsm@n4vu.Atl.GA.US (John Miller) Subject: Re: Mindspring? Date: 1996/03/30 Message-ID: <Dp2x1A.22H@n4vu.Atl.GA.US> X-Deja-AN: 145000873 references: <4ivmh7$dtp@juliana.sprynet.com> <4jd77k$6pe@stealth100.mindspring.com> <mayhemDozAB4.1Ax@netcom.com> <knag11jbs3.fsf@xena.mindspring.com> <mayhemDp15M2.52y@netcom.com> followup-to: alt.internet.services,atl.general organization: Pan-Galactic Consulting newsgroups: alt.internet.services,atl.general