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Article #63254Re: Cygnus & the spirit of free software
From: Peter Brewer
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 06:05
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 06:05
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In article <19382@comton.airs.com>, Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> wrote: >brewer@hamlet.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) writes: > >>It might be okay to laud Cygnus as an example of a 'good' company. >>They should not be allowed to use the name GNU or FSF * in any way * >>when marketing the other part of their tree. They should call them >>cygnus tools whatever and no mention of the FSF or GNU should be made. > >Or are you just saying that Cygnus should not describe the non-GNU >(but always free) software it distributes as GNU software? So far as >I know, it doesn't. You can look at the Cygnus Web page yourself to >check the truth of this (http://www.cygnus.com/). > Separation of church ( FSF/LPF ) [ the religion ] and state ( Cygnus ) is good. See U.S. Constitution for details. ;8^) -- peter brewer
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,6f6401020632541f X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-22 22:05:30 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!stern.fokus.gmd.de!gmdtub!cs.tu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!swiss.ans.net!gatech!psuvax1!news.cc.swarthmore.edu!netnews.upenn.edu!msunews!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!eff!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!hecate.umd.edu!not-for-mail From: brewer@yorick.umd.edu (Peter Brewer) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Cygnus & the spirit of free software Message-ID: <3ih8ja$gon@yorick.umd.edu> Date: 23 Feb 95 06:05:30 GMT References: <zoo@armadillo.COM> <m0ra3mz-000Ql4C@subzero.winternet.com> <3gshlj$5sl@hamlet.umd.edu> <19382@comton.airs.com> Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: yorick.umd.edu