Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Jan 2003 23:06:30 +0000 | From | Andrew Walrond <> | Subject | Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" |
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I knew we should have stayed ;)
[I'm joking - honest!!!]
Andrew [ British ;) ]
Shureih, Tariq wrote: > The greatest enemy to knowledge is not ignorance; it's the illusion of > knowledge. > > Shame on you! > > -- > Tariq Shureih > Opinions are my own and don't represent my employer > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ranjeet Shetye [mailto:ranjeet.shetye@zultys.com] > Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:10 PM > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: RE: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" > > > Hi RMS, > > Saw you here and thought I'd remind you. I got under your skin quite a > few years back cos I wrote this perl-based cscope which I released for > free - with a modified BSD licence stating that no one in pakistan or no > person of pakistani nationality could use it and that this licence could > not be modified to allow pakis to use it. You might ask why I did that ? > Well, I am an Indian and I thought I'd just needle some pakis cos they > are such nincompoops. Anyways, 9/11 proved me right that pakis (+ > saudis) suck ass big time. > > Getting back to open-licence software, if you hadn't been such a > nitpicking ideologue, the free s/w world would have had a cscope at > least 2 years earlier than it did. I gave you my version of a "free" > licence, and you didn't like it one bit! That was the OTHER reason I did > it. To prove a point to you, that EVEN in a Free software world, there > might be some other price to be paid. > > A full-freedom software world might turn out to be a grey tasteless > odourless flavourless communist world. Even free s/w needs competition > to keep it on its toes, and money is the best damned motivation for > normal people! While everyone, including me, appreciates what you've > achieved in the past, your intransigence over your untenable extreme > views on software freedom is the primary reason why you are losing > ground everyday with your own supporters. Think about it. > > Ranjeet Shetye > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org >>[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of >>Christoph Hellwig >>Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 1:28 PM >>To: Richard Stallman >>Cc: efault@gmx.de; Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net; >>linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>Subject: Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" >> >> >>On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 03:31:07PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: >> >>>If you call the system "Linux", you are misinforming other people: >>>teaching them a false picture of the system's history. >> >>Some of them >> >>>may become so attached to the false picture that it distorts their >>>thinking. If you call it "GNU/Linux", this won't happen. >> >>The term Linux for the whole system might be inaccurate, but >>it's what is used and as long as the owner of the name Linux >>(Linus) doesn't complain that's fine. Calling it GNU/Linux >>is 1984-style changing of history, though. >> > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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