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SubjectRe: RMS at it again *sigh*
In <79fq9b$1bf@pell.pell.portland.or.us> david parsons (o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s) wrote:
> In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.4.05.9902030657240.2649-100000@tahallah.demon.co.uk>,
> Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>I just read an article by RMS in which he is thinking of changing
>>libraries over from the LGPL to the GPL. This will have the unwanted
>>side-effect of driving commercial interests away from further ports of
>>proprietary software (potentially deny these ports' future conversion to
>>open source)

> No, it simply means that the FSF will go skipping merrily down the
> same path as the OSF did with X11. Eventually they'll reach the
> brick wall, and then they'll have to hurry back to the start of the
> path to catch up to the people who are continuing to work on the
> more free version of the code.

We'll see :-))

>>That man is starting to worry me. If he forces certain critical libraries
>>such as glibc into the GPL instead of the current LGPL, it spells deep
>>trouble for all.

> Glibc critical? Ha! libc4.8 or fight!

So you admit that glibc is critical :-)) (Hint: libc4.8 is just hacked version
of glibc1 :-))





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