Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new

Mark Mielke
2002-10-20T08:32:02Z

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 10:18:18PM -0400, Murray J. Root wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 10:00:08PM -0400, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> > Since RMS is a troll, I highly suggest you immediately uninstall all
> > software with any code written by him, including the GNU C Compiler suite.
> That doesn't make sense. Just because he did a good thing we need to put up
> with his ranting and raving if we want to use it? Sorry - he forgot to put
> that condition into the GPL so we aren't bound by it.

Seriously. According to Richard, my freedom as the user supercedes
Richard's freedom as author or contributor.

mark

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