[CS-FSLUG] GNU believers
Eduardo Sanchez
lists at sombragris.org
Thu Sep 2 07:34:05 CDT 2004
On Thursday 02 September 2004 01:09, Leon Brooks wrote:
[snip]
> The GPL isn't universally ideal, and many projects (Apache, PostFix,
> BIND, PostgreSQL) get along fine without it. Even RMS, who is
> personally difficult to deal with, has on at least one occasion
blessed
> a decision to use a BSD licence instead.
That was, IIRC, the use of BSD licensing for the vorbis codec.
> However, a backbone of GPLed
> software (Linux, KDE, The GIMP) is vital for keeping the, er,
> fatherless honest, because said fatherless will be with us until Jesus
> returns. We do live in a fallen world, no? Part of our basic theology?
>
I couldn't have said it better. Three cheers for Leon!
Eduardo
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Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
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