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Article #72874Re: Free GNU Regex Compatible Regexp Library
From: Vincent Manis
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1992 21:24
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1992 21:24
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In article <2990@tronsbox.xei.com> tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson) writes: > The purpose of the copyleft is to attempt to blackmail >programmers into a particular political view. Indeed, the purpose of proprietary software licencing is to attempt to blackmail consumers into a particularly political view, namely that money more properly belongs in the vendor's, rather than the consumer's, pocket. If you don't understand why using a government legal system to enforce this belief is a political view, I suggest taking an introductory political science course. -- \ Vincent Manis <manis@cs.ubc.ca> "There is no law that vulgarity and \ Department of Computer Science literary excellence cannot coexist." /\ University of British Columbia -- A. Trevor Hodge / \ Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1W5 (604) 228-2394
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,cf42a4f5e2fb550e X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-08 18:48:52 PST Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!van-bc!ubc-cs!manis From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) Subject: Re: Free GNU Regex Compatible Regexp Library Message-ID: <1992Jan8.212402.12122@cs.ubc.ca> Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News) Organization: Institute for Pure and Applied Eschatology References: <YLO.92Jan3181626@ngs.ngs.fi> <NELSON.92Jan3232312@cheetah.clarkson.edu> <2990@tronsbox.xei.com> Distribution: gnu Date: Wed, 8 Jan 92 21:24:02 GMT