8 Dec
1998
8 Dec
'98
9:53 a.m.
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 gram(a)cnct.com wrote:
Yup. Linux Ain't Unix. It Ain't Minix. It
ain't GNU, though it uses
Stallman's Copyleft. Yes, every Linux distribution uses gagloads of
GNU material, properly attributed, all source available, and Stallman
has nothing to complain about except that people have been making
money selling free software. (That's free as in something other than
the price -- Open Source).
Why would he complain about that? I understand it may be against his
philosophy, and RedHat-like products may not be the best examples of Linux
(KDE is probably the worst example of Linux though it's getting shipped
with every major distribution...) but how does he expect GNU software to
get distributed? Someone has to make money along the line...what we need
is to get back to the old days when people shared tips on how to speed up
their computers by soldering in a couple of diodes. In those days, it
wasn't as necessary to ruin software in order to distribute it. I got to
use dial-up bulletin board systems for about three years, and I liked them
more than the commercial internet, which killed these off, and harmed the
sort of scientific-academic-university spirit that was previously more
common among computer users.
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