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johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) writes:
> Not quite.  GNU sofware is 'free'.  Dylan as a language is disputably free.
> Dylan as an implementation may or may not be free (depending on your
> requirements, the specific implementation, etc.)  And the OS and hardware
> platform is most certainly not free.  GNU tools are free.  The promised GNU
> Hurd will be free.  GNU software runs on a great many hardware/OS platforms
> (no not free but there's a lot of competition) and has a tradition
> ('history' if you will) of very open behavior.

I count at least three definitions of the word "free" in that single
paragraph.  Either you're trying to pull a fast one or you're genuinely
confused -- which?

>                                                 Apple has a history of
> locking people (both developers (look'n'feel, patents, etc.) and users) to
> a closed universe.

GNU has a history of locking people (both developers (GPL, Apple boycotts,
etc.) and users) to a closed universe.

But of course, that's *completely* different, because it's a universe *you*
like.  Right?


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