On 15Oct01:1618+0000, David L. Craig wrote: > On 15Oct01:0945-0600, Mark Post wrote: > > > And just as an aside, I'm intrigued that at least > > one other person besides myself and John McKown knows > > about and understands the concept and is willing to > > espouse it. (I actually am more of an Open Source > > person than Free Software, but that's not terribly > > relevant here.) > As a matter of fact, I learned about RMS and his crusade on VMSHARE, not long before I got an offer to learn UNIX while providing useful mainframe expertise. RMS showed need for copyleft when most IBM mainframe libreware was simply released into the public domain (not yet a quiant notion). -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!
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