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- From: aa302@Freenet.carleton.ca (Russell McOrmond)
- Subject: Re: Dylan supported by GNU in future ?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.212018.25054@freenet.carleton.ca>
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- References: <1992Dec16.200510.8310@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1992Dec15.183835.20173@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <F7LVVB14w165w@mantis.co.uk
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:20:18 GMT
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- In a previous article, johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU (John D. Mitchell) says:
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- >In article <F7LVVB14w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes:
- >[...]
- >>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?
- >
- >Please get a clue, 'free' means different things in different contexts.
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- We can wish for many things, but Mathew getting a 'clue' is not likley
- to ever happen. I read his messages in amusement, and find that he is
- a good example of the 'mentality' (Mental case?) that encourage the
- existance of destructive companies like Apple in the first place.
-
- >Except that GNU/FSF's 'universe' is *much* larger and they are very up
- >front and honest about their goals/positions. Apple has a very long and
-
- I myself use the GNU public licence in the software that I write, and
- I make use of many GNU based utilities (Emacs, diff,RCS, etc - Soon GCC)
- and I don't even run Unix at this point at all. Funny, for a closed
- universe it does seem to encompase pretty much everything.
-
-
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