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Article #880Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
From: Tim Haynes
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:00
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fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) writes: [I note your pathetic attempt to misdirect this to alt.flame... pity it failed.] > 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? Well thanks for answering the question. Er, not. Obviously you don't know what 'Open' as applied to 'Open Source' means in the first place, as the GPL doesn't seem particularly restrictive to me. ~Tim -- | Geek Code: GCS dpu s-:+ a-- C++++ UBLUAVHSC++++ P+++ L++ E--- W+++(--) N++ | w--- O- M-- V-- PS PGP++ t--- X+(-) b D+ G e++(*) h++(*) r--- y- | The sun is melting over the hills, | http://piglet.is.dreaming.org/ | All our roads are waiting / To be revealed | piglet@glutinous.custard.org
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From: "Tim Haynes" <piglet@glutinous.custard.org>
Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
Date: 2000/04/05
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