From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA15085; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:49:47 -0700 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id KAA14336 for linux-list; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:49:30 -0700 Received: from yon.engr.sgi.com (yon.engr.sgi.com [150.166.61.32]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA14331 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:49:28 -0700 Received: (from ariel@localhost) by yon.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id KAA26985; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:48:57 -0700 From: ariel@yon.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-Id: <199706181748.KAA26985@yon.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: SGI machine To: knobi@munich.sgi.com (Martin Knoblauch) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:48:56 -0700 (PDT) Cc: carlson@heaven.newport.sgi.com, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <33A78F2E.794B@munich.sgi.com> from "Martin Knoblauch" at Jun 18, 97 09:33:02 am Reply-To: ariel@sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME5a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk : :Christopher W. Carlson wrote: :> :> Just thought I'd pass on the response that I received from :> Richard Stallman. :> :> --- Forwarded mail from Richard Stallman :> :> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:17:06 -0400 :> From: Richard Stallman :> To: carlson :> Subject: Re: SGI machine :> :> We now have free systems running on all our machines, so we :> could not accept a machine that runs a non-free system like IRIX. :> : : So, does this mean they are no longer interested in supporting :GNU stuff on non-free systems? : Hi Linuxies, As much as I admire rms, his amazing life achievements, and the free software movement he created, let's not accept it "as is" when he talks in his strong opinionated style in the name of others. I happen to know two major FSF contributors that would love to get SGI hardware and make GNU stuff work on IRIX _or_ Linux. Please keep emailing me leads :-) -- Peace, Ariel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: ariel@yon.engr.sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) Message-ID: <199706181748.KAA26985@yon.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: SGI machine Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:48:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <33A78F2E.794B@munich.sgi.com> from "Martin Knoblauch" at Jun 18, 97 09:33:02 am Reply-To: ariel@sgi.com (Ariel Faigon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: Martin Knoblauch Cc: carlson@heaven.newport.sgi.com, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19970618174856.-9yRp2ZZ8jaaVlYw9lk-zsPJSdvF6qrgZgxyzFHzhnw@z> : :Christopher W. Carlson wrote: :> :> Just thought I'd pass on the response that I received from :> Richard Stallman. :> :> --- Forwarded mail from Richard Stallman :> :> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:17:06 -0400 :> From: Richard Stallman :> To: carlson :> Subject: Re: SGI machine :> :> We now have free systems running on all our machines, so we :> could not accept a machine that runs a non-free system like IRIX. :> : : So, does this mean they are no longer interested in supporting :GNU stuff on non-free systems? : Hi Linuxies, As much as I admire rms, his amazing life achievements, and the free software movement he created, let's not accept it "as is" when he talks in his strong opinionated style in the name of others. I happen to know two major FSF contributors that would love to get SGI hardware and make GNU stuff work on IRIX _or_ Linux. Please keep emailing me leads :-) -- Peace, Ariel