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From: gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
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Subject: Re: who cares? [Re: Rms says ...]
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Date: 22 Feb 91 17:35:54 GMT
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In article <21728@yunexus.YorkU.CA> oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes:

>We read what you wrote, but aside from maybes and couldbes and the usual
>fsfnoid strawman, [appropriately enough, a simple re-iteration of RMS'
>opinions] not much else is there. How about some hard facts about those
>oh-so-suffering X users for a change?

I made a very simple comment on a very simple point. I will restate it
so that you can see that I am not an "fsfnoid" of any type.

I am not claiming that my argument is true for everyone. I am saying
that it's true for some people.

The claim was, essentially, that "PD status is always better than GPL
status. Everyone can see this."

I gave an example where, for *some* people, this isn't true. I won't
repeat it because I'm sure you recall it. I didn't say it was true for
everyone, nor that it was true for you. I don't need to present hard
facts, because it was a hypothetical situation. That's all one needs
to say "no, it's not *always* true that PD is better than GPL."

Now, whether or not X would have become popular if it was GPLed has
NOTHING to do with this line of argument. And that's why I asked
Nazgul to respond to what I wrote, not what he wanted to argue
against. There are arguments to be made for making things PD, and I
know what they are, and I like some of them. However, I don't think
it's *always* true that those arguments win. Different people have
different criteria, and you aren't everyone.

Is this clear yet, or is someone else going to step up and gleefully
read more things into my postings?