On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:45:36PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
If anyone had claimed such any kind of distribution
in this area some years ago, I'd taken it for a good joke[1].
[...]
[1] compareable to a cat /bin/clear on a Solaris of the right version.
I presume this was like Solaris's
Branden Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:45:36PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
If anyone had claimed such any kind of distribution
in this area some years ago, I'd taken it for a good joke[1].
[...]
[1] compareable to a cat /bin/clear on a Solaris of the right version.
I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
Jeremy Hankins hasn't explained well enough for me why in that
future we would be unable to make the kinds of free software we have
now.
Ah, I wasn't aware of that. I'll see if I can flesh it out a bit for
you.
Imagine a world with
Jeremy Hankins said:
Imagine a world with omnipresent connectivity, and a lot of copylefted
software. Someone decides that they could make the browser into a
platform (remember Netscape the MS antitrust trial). So they take
commonly available Free software packages and stick them behind a
* Jeremy Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030312 18:53]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
So they take
commonly available Free software packages and stick them behind a web
interface. Gcc, tetex, emacs, etc. They lock them down so that no
one can access the filesystem of the
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