On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Jeffry Smith wrote:

> You might point out to him that, without a license, no one except him
> can distribute the software.  Software licensing as practiced by
> proprietary firms may be stupid, but that does not make all Software
> licensing stupid.  Without it, software must be treated like a book, and only
> the author / copyright holder can authorize new copies.  Is that what
                                s/authorize/distribute/

> he wants?  Anything else, and there must be a license.  
> 

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Jeffry Smith      Technical Sales Consultant     Mission Critical Linux
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Thought for today:  blow away vt. 

 To remove (files and directories) from
   permanent storage, generally by accident.  "He reformatted the
   wrong partition and blew away last night's netnews."  Oppose
   nuke.



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