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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Rms says: Motif vs open look, a trend?
Message-ID: <1991Feb20.224743.6306@alphalpha.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 22:47:43 GMT
References: <8536@mitech.com> <1991Feb9.000821.5554@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <21686@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <1991Feb20.050945.5815@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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In article <1991Feb20.050945.5815@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>Did I say the source for this particular port is available? Tell me,
>is that generally true? No. The way the X copyright works, it doesn't
>have to be. So you can be screwed. If X were GPLed, then it would be.

What makes you think that if the source for a particular machine isn't
available now, it would be if X were GPLed.  More likely if X were GPLed
it wouldn't be the standard windowing system for workstations, in which
case most of us would care less whether or not we had source, because
we wouldn't be using it.  Either way some people will be happy and some
will not, but you can't generalize your happiness to that of the rest of
the world.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.