Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty

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From: Donal K. Fellows
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00

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In article <m3aej8vjf3.fsf@thyme.td.micromuse.co.uk>,
Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote:
> The Debian philosophical pages seem to address this a bit - as an
> O.S. developer, do you want commercial s/ware to steal your code? -
> so a browse around <http://www.uk.debian.org/intro/free> might be
> amusing.  But who is there to fight for the open-source model when
> its licenses are violated?

Some of us prefer to put the emphasis on Open, and feel that the GPL
is way too restrictive.  Something to do with not having a dog-in-a-
-manger attitude?

Donal.
-- 
Donal K. Fellows    http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/    fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk
-- The small advantage of not having California being part of my country would
   be overweighed by having California as a heavily-armed rabid weasel on our
   borders.  -- David Parsons  <o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s>

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From: fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows)
Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
Date: 2000/04/05
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