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Re: gpl licensing
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Aragorn |
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Re: gpl licensing |
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Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:26:44 GMT |
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On Sunday 03 December 2006 18:01, David Golden stood up and addressed the
masses in /gnu.misc.discuss/ as follows...:
> FSF supporters tend to be predominantly libertarian gun-nuts in my
> experience, not marxists. [...]
Well, I am certainly not a libertarian, and I'm not really a Marxist
either. ;-)
I must admit that I have a somewhat left-of-center bias, but this is only
mildly the case. I do however have some very eccentric political ideas of
which I think that they /might/ be an extension on the social-political
plane of what the FSF is doing on the IT plane, but my ideas are still too
roughly outlined and perhaps too naive - not to mention that they're
probably way off-topic here - so I'm not going to expound on them any
further. ;-)
I think it would be safest to say that I'm someone who naively believes in
justice - i.e. the concept of it; I have very little faith in the
enforcement of it - and who also believes that the view narrows when you
travel into the extremes, and that it's therefore best to keep a center
view.
I believe in the cause of Free Software, and it was as much a thrill to me
to discover the GPL as discovering the technical aspects of GNU/Linux
itself. Both discoveries occurred at the same time, by the way, through
the purchase of a Mandrake 6.0 Powerpack in 1999, before I even had an
internet connection at home.
At that stage, I was using Windows NT as a compromise, because I had
previously been an OS/2 user for many years, but I really wanted a
UNIX-like operating system. I had already heard of GNU, but I had no idea
of how advanced it had become in the meantime - likewise for the Linux
kernel, of which I didn't even know that it was only a kernel back then -
and as I had no internet at home, all I knew of UNIX-like operating systems
was that they were very expensively licensed. Well, that is to say, I had
of course also already worked with UNIX on machines that weren't my own - a
mainframe was a bit too expensive for me... ;-)
And so, there was GNU/Linux. Finally an affordable package, finally an
affordable UNIX-style system. And it came (for most part) under this great
license...
I've been a faithful GNU/Linux user since, and a devout advocate of Free
(Libre) Software. ;-)
P.S.: I didn't mean to start a flamewar by my participation in this thread.
I was just an ignorant newcomer to this newsgroup, unaware of who's who and
what goes on. ;-)
--
With kind regards,
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)
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- Re: gpl licensing, David Kastrup, 2006/12/03
- Re: gpl licensing, Aragorn, 2006/12/03
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- Re: gpl licensing, rjack, 2006/12/03
- Re: gpl licensing, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/12/03
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- Re: gpl licensing, John Hasler, 2006/12/03
- Re: gpl licensing, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, 2006/12/03
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