Re: On the multiple definitions of "free"

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From: Matt Crawford
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1992 22:29

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) entropy@wintermute.WPI.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
) > There is a very good reason to put things under the GNU public license, take 
) > look at the header files in Ultrix, then download the BSD source from uunet.
) > DEC took something Berkeley gave away for free and then restricted it.

mathew@mantis (Lieutenant 030) writes:
) So why the hell did you buy DEC stuff then?  If DEC took something unfairly
) and restricted it, surely the appropriate response is to tell DEC to go
) to hell, NOT to try and force DEC to do things the way you think they ought
) to be done.

That doesn't follow at all.  Will you explain your reasoning?  You can
say something more compelling than "surely", I hope ...

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