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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SLS: now available (for testers)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.224805.26718@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 22:48:05 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.215216.18073@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- In article <1992Aug15.215216.18073@sol.UVic.CA>, pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
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- | BTW: If there are any comments about other software that should
- | be added, please let me know. I insist upon keeping it to 15 disks
- | for now, but there is still some room left (not much though).
- | But, if you just want to bitch about how it should contain
- | the source tree, or should have all the alpha kernels and
- | tcpip alpha, etc, please consider using 386BSD. The goal of SLS
- | is to maintain a balance between small and featureful, with
- | an emphasis on the former.
-
- I'm sorry you consider it bitching, but I /do/ think that the source
- tree should be included, because the GPL requires that it be made
- available. That's why I'm not distributing disks myself.
-
- I would suggest that you break this into sections, like SCO (only not at
- $1500/section) of install, base utils, extended utils, X, games, gcc,
- and source.
-
- I was not upset when you stated your prices, although lots of others
- seemed to be. You are entitled by the GPL to charge whatever the market
- will bear. I /am/ upset that you seem to be violating the GPL in your
- distribution, and I hope others will be, too. You are welcome to
- consider this a "bitch about how it should contain the source tree"
- should you desire. I consider it "let's all play by the rules."
-
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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