Xref: utzoo news.misc:4000 alt.flame:13565 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!texbell!splut!jay From: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Newsgroups: news.misc,alt.flame Subject: Re: The Rape of Usenet Keywords: The wholesale capturing of Usenet by GEnie Message-ID: Date: 22 Dec 89 00:38:08 GMT References: <946@crash.cts.com> Reply-To: jay@splut.conmicro.com (Jay "you ignorant splut!" Maynard) Followup-To: alt.religion.computers Organization: Confederate Microsystems, League City, TX Lines: 24 In article <946@crash.cts.com> canada@crash.cts.com (Diane Barlow Close) writes a tirade about someone uploading comp.sys.atari en masse to GEnie. I have no real opinion on that subject, other than to hope that GEnie is gatewayed bidirectionally, but I must take issue with the following statement: >If you want a TRUE example of the hacker ethic, then read a bit about >Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. *They* represent the >hacker ethic! Uhm, not exactly. There's been a debate raging in alt.religion.computers about this very subject. The GNU Public License, or, more properly, GNU Public Virus, is anti-hacker: it attempts to coerce everyone else into RMS's idea of paradise. Some of us don't subscribe to that idea. Instead, I feel that Geoff Collyer and Henry Spencer are much closer to the hacker ethic in the license for C news: here it is, use it freely; just don't try to blame us for your screwed-up version of it. -- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can jay@splut.conmicro.com (eieio)| adequately be explained by stupidity. {attctc,bellcore}!texbell!splut!jay +---------------------------------------- Here come Democrats...here come Democrats...throwing money a-way...