On 9/15/07, J.C. Roberts  wrote:

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> The "GNU Manifesto" by Richard Stallman can be found here:

> http://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/info/GNUGNU

>

> If Stallman actually believed a word of what he wrote above, he would

> still be dedicating all of his works to the public domain since it

> would have no restrictions. In short, Stallman is a liar. Stallman may

I think you may be letting your emotions carry you a long a little.

Not very conductive in a situation like this.  I've always viewed the

bsd as preserving the rights of the distributors, and the gpl as

preserving the rights of the distributees.
Really, I don't see what's the fuss with trying to pull stallman into

this fight.  It's not his fight, the kernel is not controlled by the

fsf, and in fact, Linus often has issues with stallman.  Should any

discussion about democracy pull in the ancient greeks as well?  These

red herring fights do not help any on the main topic, which is - some

kernel developers are going overboard in their zeal to gpl code,

including stealing other people's code.  And even the word stealing

may not be appropriate, depending on the intentions - if all we want

to do is browbeat them into submission, and cry uncle, that's a

perfectly fine word to use.  If we want to show them that they're

being silly, another word ought to be chosen.
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-- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation.