Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:59:54 +0100:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> That is true. However, when you take two short stories, commingle >> paragraphs from one of them with paragraphs from the other, connecting >> them up with sentences of your own to give a new short story, you have >> a derivative work. Doing this may be unusual for stories, but is a >> perfectly normal way of creating software. > Maybe in the GNU Republic. Why do you try to be disparaging about GNU? > I can't recall ever "commingling" software. You poor thing! No wonder you come over so uptight and frustrated on this newsgroup. ;-) Are you a programmer, in any sense of that word? If so, your failure to commingle existing software might explain why your software is less good than GNU's. Did you actually look "commingle" up in a dictionary? > regards, > alexander. -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a"). _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
