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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: Dylan supported by GNU in future ?
- Message-ID: <F7LVVB14w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 13:04:38 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.183835.20173@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) writes:
- > Not quite. GNU sofware is 'free'. Dylan as a language is disputably free.
- > Dylan as an implementation may or may not be free (depending on your
- > requirements, the specific implementation, etc.) And the OS and hardware
- > platform is most certainly not free. GNU tools are free. The promised GNU
- > Hurd will be free. GNU software runs on a great many hardware/OS platforms
- > (no not free but there's a lot of competition) and has a tradition
- > ('history' if you will) of very open behavior.
-
- I count at least three definitions of the word "free" in that single
- paragraph. Either you're trying to pull a fast one or you're genuinely
- confused -- which?
-
- > Apple has a history of
- > locking people (both developers (look'n'feel, patents, etc.) and users) to
- > a closed universe.
-
- GNU has a history of locking people (both developers (GPL, Apple boycotts,
- etc.) and users) to a closed universe.
-
- But of course, that's *completely* different, because it's a universe *you*
- like. Right?
-
-
- mathew
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