Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

Segher Boessenkool
2006-09-28T18:59:39Z

> However, now some are beginning to see the light as history
> continues to be rewritten and a history lesson is unfolding.

> These efforts go back to the days when
> "distributions" consisted of 56 floppy disks and Linus was
> in Helsinki, working on his degree. The FSF didn't exist, and
> GNU was the name of an immature compiler.

The FSF was founded in 1985, now who is rewriting history
here :-) "GNU" never was the name for the compiler, either.

> Sometimes we need
> to be reminded of the history of a particular thing because,
> once out-of-mind, history tends to be rewritten by those who
> would advance in its new "interpretation."

I don't really want to know what you try to gain by this
"properly composed statement", heh.

Segher