Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Xicheng Liu (xcliu@jdl.com.cn)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 16:28:54 +0800


I suggest that we stop here on this topic.

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From: Marcin Dalecki <dalecki@cs.net.pl>
To: <rms@gnu.org>; <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: 1998Äê12ÔÂ21ÈÕ 16:15
Subject: Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

>AAAh! The discussion is starting to become really just
>pseudo politics now...
>
>Richard Stallman wrote:
>>
>> I am afraid that large, proprietary companies with intrest in the
>> Linux market will lead to the death of GNU/Linux.
>>
>> There is certainly a danger, but we are not entirely helpless against
>> it. We can reduce the danger, if we teach the millions of new
>> GNU/Linux users to value freedom--not just convenience and high tech.
>
>Please do me a favour don't *teach* me anything.
>
>> Each additional user who starts to insist on freedom
>> makes us stronger, so if we reach just a fraction of the users,
>> we are still doing a considerable amount of good for our community.
>
>Users, really just users, and no community...
>
> Marcin
>PS. Whot does this have in common with the inner workings of the
>Linux kernel?
>
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