Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!unsvax!jimi!otto!rex
From: rex@otto.lvsun.com (Rex Jolliff)
Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: Media cost
Message-ID: <969@otto.lvsun.com>
Date: 14 Aug 89 06:41:19 GMT
References: <33473@apple.Apple.COM> <247@unmvax.unm.edu>
Reply-To: rex@otto.lvsun.com (Rex Jolliff)
Organization: Las Vegas Sun
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in an earlier article, Landon Dyer writes some entertaining stuff about
how to get around the GPL, which, because of the smileys, should have
been taken tounge in cheek.

In a reply to this article Michael I. Bushnell writes:

Oh Jesus, now we've got Apple developers trying to sound out the GNU
license to see how much they can get away with.  This is unbelievable.
Landon tells us that he "likes the GNU stuff, just not the politics".
Hmmm...not surprising.  Gee, what about when GNU clones the MAC
interface (as if someone actually wants to DO such a thing!)?  Will he
STILL "like the GNU stuff"?  Or will he suddenly take a liking to
politics and sue GNU just like they're suing Microsoft.  Alas.

I say:

I found Landon's article entertaining.  I'm sure he was not at all
serious and since he put smileys on his article, anyone should have
been able to tell that he was just having some fun.  I don't see any
smileys on your article, and I don't find it particularly funny
either.  Lighten up dude.  'He' is not Apple and I'm sure he doesn't
follow the exact same philosophy that apple does. You equate him to
Apple which isn't correct.

								Rex.


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