On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Bruce Perens wrote: > > From: Caspian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'd just like to state that if anyone out there is interested in making a > > completely, utterly free software GNU/Linux dist, with a license that > > prohibits putzen like those at Corel from pulling the sort of nonsense > > they've been pulling, (i.e. a license even stricter than Debian's) I'd > > love to help out. > > OBLIGATORY THIS IS NOT FOR SLASHDOT NOTICE.
Hee! > > Mr. Caspian, > > I have an even better idea. Let's do a commercial Debian distribution the > right way. We can show them by example. > > Bruce > As much as anything with "commercial" in the name makes me feel saddened just to talk about it, something like this clearly needs to be done. Yes. This is definitely a good idea. Much as I sometimes wish to lash out at the proprietary world by making a license even stricter than the GPL, I know that I'd have to go such a route alone. Besides that, it might be overreacting... Perhaps efforts could be made to provide free alternates for all (or at least MOST) non-free packages... i.e. Mozilla for Netscape, my proposed PiClone/PINE-Clone for pico/PINE, yatadayatadayatada... and of course if it had a EULA, it wouldn't restrict the OS to "adults" only, nor would it make misleading statements about what copyrights "protect" about the dist... :) -- = Jon "Caspian" Blank, right-brained computer programmer at large = .--------------------------------------------------------------------. | Freelance coder and Unix geek / Founder, The Web Union (twu.net) | | Information wants to be free! Visit www.gnu.org. | | WANTED: Writers who share the GNU philosophy. www.forsmarties.net. | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://caspian.twu.net | | Send a short message to my cell phone: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | `--------------------------------------------------------------------'
