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Subject: Re: On the multiple definitions of "free"
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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 a
>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...

???  I've got BSD source.  It doesn't have any DEC restrictions in it.
Perhaps that's because Berkeley only gave away a copy.

>The gnu philosophy works rather you like it or not, we will soon have 3
>competing free OS's, (Linux,GNU-OS,and BSD). People are contributing to these
>because they want to do something they can be proud of, money is not the only
>reward in life.

Non-sequitur soup with a splice of comma.  Yes, the GNU approach works, but
BSD isn't an example of it.  BSD code doesn't use copyleft (as illustrated
in your earlier example), and CSRG has given specific reasons for not using
it.  Their choice.  BSD works; GNU works.  Oh, and some folks get paid for
doing things they're also proud of.
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Dick Dunn    rcd@raven.eklektix.com   -or-   raven!rcd    Boulder, Colorado
	...Simpler is better.