🚀 go-pugleaf

Chip Salzenberg (chip@tct.com) wrote:
> According to johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston):
> >[GPL code] is free-er in every sense of the word than any other 
> >software I've worked with...
> 
> Then apparently you've never used X, or Deliver, or any other system
> either public domain or copyrighted but released for unrestricted use.

Unfortunately, I have to use a hoarded X display every day at work.
The makers of it won't give us sources so we could fix the bugs
ourselves.  Clearly, the X way of distribution is not working;
improvements as well as support for new platforms doesn't get back
into the distributed sources.  That's a corrupted distribution scheme.

> The FSF didn't invent free redistribution, it corrupted it.

While I can't get the X bugs fixed for the reason described above, I
*can* run all the latest and greatest FSF software on the machines
here.  Clearly the FSF distribution scheme is working to the benefit
of both the programmers and the user society, whereas public domain
distribution does not, or does so for only a short period of time.

> Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT  <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>

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