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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shannon Roddy)
Date: Sat Jul 16 14:22:02 2005
Subject: [brlug-general] GNU/Linux User Group?
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On 7/16/05, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It looks more like you took time to light your flame thrower. Crapping on the
> creator of GCC and author of the GPL is not a very friendly reception for a
> six month newbie. "Communist," "diarrhea of the mouth," what got into you?
>
I don't like Stallman or his motivations. That is what got into me.
> Stallman is usually right about software and you probably agree with him more
> than you think.
Nope.
> If all other things were equal, would you rather run a Free
> program or one someone else owned?
Depends on the quality of the software. There are still applications
where I refuse to run Linux and instead run a commercial *nix. I
refuse to use Windows for just about anything because the quality is
so poor, not because it is not GPL.
> That choice is obvious to me and from it
> I believe that all software should be Free software.
Absolutely not. The market and the author should decide. Your
motivations appear to be similar to Stallman's.
> I'm not going to write
> non free software because I'm not going to do something to other people I
> don't want them doing to me. Pressing "I agree" really bugs me.
Fine. You can write all the free software you want. I have written
software that is used in house at work and is not publicly released,
and if released would likely be GPL'd. However, who are you to tell
me that it should be GPL'd if you didn't write it? The license is
good. It has changed the way many things are done. However, this all
or nothing BS is what ticks me off. I don't agree with Stallman or
you so it seems.
> On a more practical level, there would be no Linux kernel today had there been
> no GNU.
Sure there would have been. You really think that the kernel could
not have been written using another compiler?
