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.