On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:09:09AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:

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> Free software: It's all about the price.

> The rest of the talk about "freedom", etc. is just trying to keep

> them from looking like cheap, greedy bastards.

> At least for an awful lot of 'em.

I have to point out that I have been told on this list by a GPL fan that

the dictionary definition of freedom isn't correct.  He was so friendly

to ask me who the hell I was to tell him what freedom means.  Freedom

for him did mean free + random rules.
For all the great things the GPL has done its followers really could do

some reading on that whole "definition of words" thing.
This copyright thing is a complete debacle and shows just how

disingenuous some of the linux people are.  There is no way I buy that

the lawyers involved do not understand what they are doing.  As a fan of

the following quote: "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately

explained by incompetence" -- Napoleon Bonaparte

I do not buy that the FSF (yes I said it) lawyers do not understand

copyright law.  Nobody with a degree in law is that stupid therefore I

have to conclude that there is malice involved.
The FSF should take a deep breath and apologize to Reyk, apologize to

Theo, apologize to OpenBSD and apologize to the open source community at

large.