Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 24/01/07, Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And besides, the BSDL predates the GPLv1 by a decade. This is simply untrue. I have done some research on this: http://books.google.co.uk/books?q=%22at%26t+source+license%22+BSD In 1989 the Networking Tape 1 was released; this was the

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27/01/07, Gabriel Ambuehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:23:52 Dave Crossland wrote: And besides, the BSDL predates the GPLv1 by a decade. This is simply untrue. I have done some research on this:

RE: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-27 Thread David Schlesinger
This is simply untrue. The fact is, as originally stated, that the BSD preceded the GPL (by two years or ten) and that free or open source software certainly existed well before the FSF did. I received system distributions for DECsystem-10s in the 70s, entirely in source form... The freedom

RE: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-27 Thread Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik
On 3:30:45 pm 2007-01-27 David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is simply untrue. The fact is, as originally stated, that the BSD preceded the GPL (by two years or ten) http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/ I think they were at most at the same time not one preceded the other.

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-27 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Saturday 27 January 2007 15:58:46 Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote: (You've let us know you're not a developer; it's becoming clear you have no greater level of understanding of legal issues.) I won't comment on this as IANAL. This is entirely right (albeit IANAL either). For example, if

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-27 Thread Declan Naughton
On 1/27/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because capitalists organisations involve authoritative decision making and the person in authority, paying my wage, tells me I have to be there. Yawn. So quit. Move to the people's republic of your choice and live in proletarian

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-27 Thread Renaissance Man
Are you sure you should be on a children's mailing list somewhere? Renaissance Man On 27 Jan 2007, at 4:16 pm, David Schlesinger wrote: Yawn. So quit. Move to the people's republic of your choice and live in proletarian harmony, giving according to your means and receiving according to your

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-27 Thread Dave Crossland
(offlist) On 27/01/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is simply untrue. The fact is, as originally stated, that the BSD preceded the GPL (by two years or ten) I would really appeciate some evidence of this. Here my evidence that the original BSD license was first used in

RE: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-27 Thread David Schlesinger
(offlist) Not. I would really appeciate some evidence of this... Fine. You're correct that the GPL and the BSD came out in the same year. In any case, there was, as I've said, plenty of free software (although few licenses) a decade and more before any of this. Now that I've agreed that I

Re: Free This Mailing List! (was Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone))

2007-01-25 Thread Renaissance Man
On 24 Jan 2007, at 7:13 pm, David Schlesinger wrote: Where did I, or anybody else, DEMAND that OpenMoko give credit to GNU? Dave Crossland's demanded it on a couple of occasions. Go back and reread his latest messages, particularly his message of 6:13 am this morning. It might help

Re: Free This Mailing List! (was Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone))

2007-01-25 Thread Marcel de Jong
I think we've heard the viewpoints of both sides... In my humble opinion, this whole discussion (while it showed some good viewpoints on both sides) is a bit premature. We haven't seen any documentation from the Openmoko team that suggests that they use one notation or the other. As Sean already

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-24 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Sean, On 23/01/07, David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must be reading a different link. Sean's email most clearly states in the form of a user's manual that will give credit to GNU. He also clearly stated We'll just call it OpenMoko. Could you confirm that if FIC writes that OpenMoko

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-24 Thread David Schlesinger
Gosh, why does this fail to surprise me? Didn't you get to say your piece already? Why don't you harass the Ubuntu folks with this, hm? There are many more folks calling it Linux than GNU/Linux, and very few people who seem to care strongly about your over-developed sense of history and ethics,

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-24 Thread David Schlesinger
Could you just drop this line of discussion, or pursue it off-list...? If they refer to it as Linux they'll be in line with pretty much every major _Linux_ distribution out there. On 1/24/07 6:11 AM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sean, On 23/01/07, David Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-24 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:15, Dave Crossland wrote: I feel it is misleading to describe code distributed in the 1960s and 70s as 'free software' - because software freedom was not recognised or enshrined. Ok, now that's just being ridiculous. And besides, the BSDL predates the GPLv1 by

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-24 Thread Declan Naughton
On 1/24/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better still, tell you what: since you're all about the ethics here, go and get the folks at GNU to change the name of their system to GNU/Mach and _then_ come back to talk to _us_. I might ask about that alright. Why don't you harass

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-24 Thread David Schlesinger
On 1/24/07 9:51 AM, Declan Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better still, tell you what: since you're all about the ethics here, go and get the folks at GNU to change the name of their system to GNU/Mach and _then_ come back to talk to

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-24 Thread Declan Naughton
On 1/24/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07 9:51 AM, Declan Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better still, tell you what: since you're all about the ethics here, go and get the folks at GNU to change the name of

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-24 Thread Raymond Ward
Declan Naughton wrote: On 1/24/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07 9:51 AM, Declan Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better still, tell you what: since you're all about the ethics here, go and get the folks at

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-24 Thread Declan Naughton
On 1/24/07, Raymond Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Declan Naughton wrote: On 1/24/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07 9:51 AM, Declan Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better still, tell you what: since you're

Free This Mailing List! (was Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone))

2007-01-24 Thread David Schlesinger
On 1/24/07 10:20 AM, Declan Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I am aware, OpenMoko is not using the GNU/CMU Mach kernel.. No, they're certainly not. However, GNU _is_ and they're failing to give appropriate credit to the principal developer of their system. So on what basis are you

Re: Free This Mailing List! (was Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone))

2007-01-24 Thread David Schlesinger
On 1/24/07 11:03 AM, Declan Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07 10:20 AM, Declan Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I am aware, OpenMoko is not using the GNU/CMU Mach kernel.. No, they're certainly not. However, GNU

Re: Free This Mailing List! (was Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone))

2007-01-24 Thread Declan Naughton
On 1/24/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07 11:03 AM, Declan Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/24/07 10:20 AM, Declan Naughton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I am aware, OpenMoko is not using the GNU/CMU

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Renaissance Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070122 01:38]: I actually become aware of the FS movement via the GNU moniker, so it worked on me. For many years I was only aware of the OS movement (through knowing about Linux). rant Guess you wasn't to much interested in the license of the software you

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Crossland
On 22/01/07, Andreas Kostyrka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Renaissance Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070122 01:38]: I actually become aware of the FS movement via the GNU moniker, so it worked on me. For many years I was only aware of the OS movement (through knowing about Linux). Guess you wasn't to

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Crossland
(sorry for the premature post) On 22/01/07, Andreas Kostyrka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Renaissance Man [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070122 01:38]: I actually become aware of the FS movement via the GNU moniker, so it worked on me. For many years I was only aware of the OS movement (through knowing

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Crossland
On 22/01/07, Marcel de Jong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/21/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If more people are aware of why freedom and community matter, then they will buy more products that support freedom and community, like more Neos. How does adding three more letters and

RE: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread David Schlesinger
I like to be accurate and know what I am talking about, and I like others to be too :-) It simply never ends, does it? Feel entirely free to call it GNU/Linux, Bob/Linux, Jim/Linux or whatever you like, okay. But _please_ stop proselytizing. Have you ever noticed how folks with a zealot-like

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread Renaissance Man
David, if you're not interested in the topic take note of the subject in your inbox and stop reading the thread. Don't troll the thread with inflammatory arguments and personal attacks. You may have made up your mind but there are clearly other people who would like to continue the

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread MR
I just joined the mailing list but if the point of this thread is about whether the manual/box/website for openmoko should refer to it using Linux or GNU/Linux then I am 100% whole heartedly behind GNU/Linux.. If there were the possibility of replacing the kernel with say a cut down bsd kernel

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Crossland
On 22/01/07, MR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just joined the mailing list but if the point of this thread is about whether the manual/box/website for openmoko should refer to it using Linux or GNU/Linux then I am 100% whole heartedly behind GNU/Linux. That's originally what this thead was about,

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread Andreas Kostyrka
* Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070122 21:37]: That also wouldn't be accurate. The droid, refering to wikipedia-stable, might instead say: So, it's something _different_ than Linux? Well, not really. GNU/Linux is the whole system; Linux is one part of the system, and it is a very

RE: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread David Schlesinger
Feel entirely free to call it GNU/Linux, Bob/Linux, Jim/Linux or whatever you like, okay. But _please_ stop proselytizing. Dude, why so prickly? I am not sure why this discussion is making you so agitated..? We are having a discussion, and if you want it to stop, just... stop? :-) I'm not

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread Declan Naughton
Let's just call it GNU/Linux and be done with it. On 1/22/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel entirely free to call it GNU/Linux, Bob/Linux, Jim/Linux or whatever you like, okay. But _please_ stop proselytizing. Dude, why so prickly? I am not sure why this discussion is

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread Richard Franks
On 1/22/07, David Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It simply never ends, does it? One can hope :-) Next time I get another argument on this subject in my inbox, I'm going to simply email this back-to-sender, not the entire list: http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Debate-GNU-Linux

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread Renaissance Man
From: http://www.linuxtogo.org/gowiki/OpenMoko/Debate-GNU-Linux This debate cannot be won, by either side. Sometimes intelligent people disagree, this is A Good Thing. Actually I thought it was pretty clear from Sean's comment on the matter that, with regard to OpenMoko, that GNU/Linux

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread David Ford
I believe we already saw Sean's reply to you and he said GNU would be credited in the documentation. -david p.s. the more people blabber about GNU, the more I try to remove it from my system and support non-GNU replacements. this is called the point of where proselytizing is no longer

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread David Ford
Most sales droids I know wouldn't even have a clue about either GNU or Linux :-D -david Andreas Kostyrka wrote: * Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070122 21:37]: That also wouldn't be accurate. The droid, refering to wikipedia-stable, might instead say: So, it's something _different_

Re: GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-22 Thread Corey
On Monday 22 January 2007 20:07, David Ford wrote: p.s. the more people blabber about GNU, the more I try to remove it from my system and support non-GNU replacements. That's obviously your prerogative, by all means. But... wow, talk about throwing out the baby with the bath water. I'm

GNU discussion (was re:Free your phone)

2007-01-21 Thread Marcel de Jong
Hello all, On this recent discussion on yes/no GNU/Linux, I saw this and that popped up a question for me: On 1/21/07, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip If more people are aware of why freedom and community matter, then they will buy more products that support freedom and community,