Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

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From: Jeremy C. Reed
Date: Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 2:41 pm

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:


At least at one time (and maybe still today), his goal was to destroy 
programmer's livelihoods.

I have the printed, comb-binded, March 1987 Sixth Edition, version 18 of 
the GNU Emacs Manual. It includes the 1985/1986 version of the GNU 
Manifesto which says on page 244:

    If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative
    programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they
    restrict the use of these programs.

The use of GPL itself is known to be restrictive to many. There are many 
documented examples of this.

(Should programmers using GPL be "punished"?? :)

Is there any legitimate example of OpenBSD's preferred license being 
restrictive to anyone? (I really am curious about this.)
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The Atheros story in much fewer words, Theo de Raadt, (Wed Sep 12, 7:57 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Nick Holland, (Thu Sep 13, 4:09 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Marco Peereboom, (Thu Sep 13, 5:48 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Claudio Jeker, (Thu Sep 13, 9:21 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Darren Spruell, (Thu Sep 13, 10:16 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Shawn K. Quinn, (Thu Sep 13, 12:08 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Darren Spruell, (Thu Sep 13, 12:32 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Shawn K. Quinn, (Thu Sep 13, 12:37 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words , Theo de Raadt, (Thu Sep 13, 12:57 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, steve szmidt, (Thu Sep 13, 1:07 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Paul de Weerd, (Thu Sep 13, 1:15 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words , Theo de Raadt, (Thu Sep 13, 1:19 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Claudio Jeker, (Thu Sep 13, 1:26 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Thu Sep 13, 2:25 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Daniel Ouellet, (Thu Sep 13, 2:33 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Jeremy C. Reed, (Thu Sep 13, 2:41 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, bofh, (Thu Sep 13, 3:14 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, steve szmidt, (Thu Sep 13, 3:27 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Reiner Jung, (Thu Sep 13, 3:50 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Thu Sep 13, 3:58 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Marco Peereboom, (Thu Sep 13, 4:28 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Reiner Jung, (Thu Sep 13, 4:29 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Nick Holland, (Thu Sep 13, 9:30 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Paul de Weerd, (Thu Sep 13, 11:12 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Fri Sep 14, 12:42 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Fri Sep 14, 12:44 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Fri Sep 14, 12:46 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Craig Skinner, (Fri Sep 14, 1:05 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Craig Skinner, (Fri Sep 14, 1:05 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Marc Espie, (Fri Sep 14, 1:46 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Paul de Weerd, (Fri Sep 14, 2:49 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Fri Sep 14, 3:13 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Jeroen Massar, (Fri Sep 14, 3:27 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Tony Abernethy, (Fri Sep 14, 3:31 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Fri Sep 14, 4:24 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Sebastien Carlier, (Fri Sep 14, 4:39 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Fri Sep 14, 4:51 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Tony Abernethy, (Fri Sep 14, 4:52 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Tony Abernethy, (Fri Sep 14, 5:03 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Paul de Weerd, (Fri Sep 14, 5:29 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Sebastien Carlier, (Fri Sep 14, 5:50 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Siju George, (Fri Sep 14, 6:25 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Bob Beck, (Fri Sep 14, 7:14 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Bob Beck, (Fri Sep 14, 7:26 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Fri Sep 14, 7:58 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Fri Sep 14, 8:06 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Jack J. Woehr, (Fri Sep 14, 8:19 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Paul de Weerd, (Fri Sep 14, 8:55 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Greg Thomas, (Fri Sep 14, 10:09 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Greg Thomas, (Fri Sep 14, 10:18 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, David H. Lynch Jr., (Fri Sep 14, 1:32 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, David H. Lynch Jr., (Fri Sep 14, 1:55 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, J.C. Roberts, (Fri Sep 14, 2:11 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Daniel Ouellet, (Fri Sep 14, 2:29 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Sebastien Carlier, (Fri Sep 14, 3:06 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, J.C. Roberts, (Fri Sep 14, 3:25 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Jeroen Massar, (Fri Sep 14, 5:21 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Richard Stallman, (Fri Sep 14, 7:09 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Shawn K. Quinn, (Fri Sep 14, 11:02 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Shawn K. Quinn, (Fri Sep 14, 11:25 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 15, 4:30 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 15, 4:33 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 15, 4:36 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Damien Miller, (Sat Sep 15, 4:54 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Jeroen Massar, (Sat Sep 15, 4:58 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Tony Abernethy, (Sat Sep 15, 5:11 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Tony Abernethy, (Sat Sep 15, 5:25 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 15, 6:40 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 15, 6:43 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 15, 6:45 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 15, 6:48 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Marc Espie, (Sat Sep 15, 6:53 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Tony Abernethy, (Sat Sep 15, 7:10 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Tony Abernethy, (Sat Sep 15, 7:13 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 15, 9:56 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sat Sep 15, 9:59 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Marco Peereboom, (Sat Sep 15, 10:40 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Marco Peereboom, (Sat Sep 15, 10:45 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Tony Abernethy, (Sat Sep 15, 10:49 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Damien Miller, (Sat Sep 15, 3:19 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, William Boshuck, (Sat Sep 15, 4:34 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, J.C. Roberts, (Sat Sep 15, 6:34 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sun Sep 16, 4:29 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Sun Sep 16, 4:56 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Siju George, (Mon Sep 17, 4:48 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Richard Stallman, (Mon Sep 17, 3:24 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Jack J. Woehr, (Mon Sep 17, 3:46 pm)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Gilles Chehade, (Tue Sep 25, 11:42 pm)
Re: The Atheros story ... Rui trolling again., Siegbert Marschall, (Wed Sep 26, 5:22 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, Siegbert Marschall, (Wed Sep 26, 5:32 am)
Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words, ttw+bsd, (Wed Sep 26, 5:56 am)