From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: GNU Public license and the future of Linux... Date: 16 Jun 1993 17:15:39 GMT
In article <1993Jun16.051826.3729@n5ial.mythical.com> jim@n5ial.mythical.com (Jim Graham) writes:
>
>> Those in .com domains have many commercial tools available for them
>>to choose from. Why should they be looking at GNU? Except with greed in their
>>heart. Read the license. If you find that its terms are not agreeable to you,
>>look for an alternative. BUT STOP MOANING.
>
>I think you should perhaps reconsider this comment.... Not everyone who
>happens to be in a .com domain is a commercial entity. I am in a .com
>domain (.mythical.com), and I'm a single end user. I am not a corporation.
>I have no budget to speak of. My primary UUCP feed site is in .com, and
>therefore, I am too. I think he could probably say the same....
>
The company I work for chose Linux instead of SCO for a variety of reasons
- Stability, Kernel Source, Better tools than SCO and finally speed. Price
didn't really come into it.
>as it seems that the Linux community (minus a few of us) is absolutely
>against anything that isn't 100% free (seems most people would rather do
>without, if need be, than pay for something they need). So be it. If
No correct that - its like fundamentalist anything, fundie GPL freaks don't
know what they are talking about, don't understand their own document and
seem common only because they are loud.
I mailed the GNU people and asked for clarification and was told linking
with the shared library is fine. End of story.
>
>I can see someone who doesn't want to use non-free stuff themselves.
>Really...I can see this point of view. What I can't understand is someone
>trying to force that attitude on everyone else, too, and it seems that a
>lot of people posting on this topic would prefer to do just that.
>
Well all these poor free stuff only people are going to be most upset when
the iBSC2 support is in the kernel, as I will be able to go off and run most
386 unix packages under Linux.
packages
Alan