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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Disinfecting the GNU Public Virus...er...License
Message-ID: <1989Dec21.001900.20024@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 21 Dec 89 00:19:00 GMT
References: <4&VSZ:@splut.conmicro.com> <1989Dec20.170048.14251@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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As quoted from <1989Dec20.170048.14251@relay.nswc.navy.mil> by dsill@ophiuchi.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill):
+---------------
| In article <4&VSZ:@splut.conmicro.com>, jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you
| ignorant splut!" Maynard) writes:
| >
| > This is a legal virus, as insidious and as evil as the (all too common)
| > computer virus.                            ----
| 
| BS.  I don't see how you can compare something designed to destroy
| data and make life difficult for people with something designed to cut
| down on the reinvention of software "wheels".
+---------------

But it *doesn't* cut down on that reinvention -- because if you don't
subscribe to RMS's view of the world, you can't use it.

+---------------
| > It forces anyone who wishes to use GNU code in his
| > program to subscribe to Richard M. Stallman's utopia. 
| 
| So what?  If you don't like that, don't use the software.
+---------------

Precisely.  I must reinvent the wheel, this invalidating your previous
argument.  Try sticking to the same subject for more than a single paragraph.

I do not support the FSF.  I used to, but I find myself unable to accept RMS's
view of the world as it "should be" -- it is unrealistic.  I therefore can not
use FSF code; it is therefore completely useless to me, and using it will
infect anything I use it in with the GPV.  So much for the FSF; as far as
their usefulness to me goes, they don't exist.

Don't bother mailing me about this; no doubt I'll be condemned as evil by half
the readers of this newsgroup, but that's just too bad.  *I* have to live with
the world as it is; I don't have the leisure to work with someone's dreams.

++Brandon
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