Actually I do get the point that you are not talking about.
In my point of view, the GPL has NOT kept you from being a social failure.
You are what you see --- I sincerely hope not. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> On Behalf Of Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:24 AM
> To: Sebastien Carlier; Paul de Weerd; misc@openbsd.org; 
> Richard Stallman
> Subject: Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words
> 
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:39:10AM +0000, Sebastien Carlier wrote:
> > Rui,
> > 
> > On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > >
> > > The spirit of the GNU GPL is to maintain freedom for all users.
> > 
> > You don't seem to get the fact that the BSD license is *more free* 
> > than the GPL because the BSD license imposes *fewer 
> requirements* on 
> > distribution.
> 
> You don't seem to get the fact that I'm not even talking 
> about what's more or less free (in your definition). The BSD 
> has fewer requirements, but it allows some users to not have 
> the freedoms you claim to defend.
> 
> In my point of view, that is a social failure, which the GPL 
> aims to end.
> 
> > Do you seriously believe people have to be coerced into 
> being "free"?
> 
> Can you be a serious person and not divert arguments to 
> totally unrelated stuff? 10x.
> 
> Rui
> 
> --
> You are what you see.
> Today is Boomtime, the 38th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3173
> + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown 
> Whatever you 
> + do will be insignificant,
> | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
> + So let's do it...?

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