Ben Pfaff stated in post 87iqn153fs....@blp.benpfaff.org on 2/22/09 6:48 PM:
> "amicus_curious" <a...@sti.net> writes: > >> "Ben Pfaff" <b...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote in message >> news:87myce5s72....@blp.benpfaff.org... >>> "amicus_curious" <a...@sti.net> writes: >>> >>>> No one takes apart complex applications in order to change >>>> them, there is no value in having all those restrictions as >>>> posed by the GPL. >>> >>> What a bizarre, incorrect claim! I spend a lot of time taking >>> apart complex applications in order to change them. The Linux >>> kernel is one example of a complex application that I spend a lot >>> of time hacking. >>> -- >> Perhaps you do, but the other 10,000 people nearest you do not. > > The half-a-dozen people who sit nearest to me at my office can, > and sometimes do. > > My point is that your assertion that "no one" does these things > is egregiously ill-informed, and I think that I have made that > point. > >> Are you one of the kernel developers? It is hard to interpret >> the Google information around your name. > > I doubt any of the kernel developers would recognize my name. > I've made a few small kernel contributions, but none recently. > > I've been doing a lot of Linux kernel work in at the office. > We haven't yet tried to contribute it upstream. Perhaps later > this year. What type improvements are you working on? -- [INSERT .SIG HERE] _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
