hey cool, an actual ON TOPIC thread on linux-il, I'm so excited :)
Quoting Alon Altman, from the post of Tue, 24 Dec:
> On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Ira Abramov wrote:
> > > 2. What if someday the people controlling FSF release Version 5 of the
> > >GPL, which says that they (FSF) alone are allowed th
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Ira Abramov wrote:
> > 2. What if someday the people controlling FSF release Version 5 of the
> >GPL, which says that they (FSF) alone are allowed the rights; and other
> >people have to pay royalties (e.g. "to pay for court costs incurred by
> >the need to defend G
Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Tue, 24 Dec:
> Currently, the FSF has title to lots of GPLed software and encourages
> independent developers of GPLed software to assign title to it, because it
> has the resources to defend the copyright in court, if necessary.
it also reserves the right to ref
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002, Amir Tal wrote about "questions for RMS":
> we are preparing a list of questions that will be used in an interview we are
> interested in conducting with RMS in his upcoming visit.
> the chosen questions (and the answers, of course) will be translated
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 01:02:12AM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about "Re: questions for RMS":
> > > * Sometimes, in order to be able to finish modifying software for which
> > >you have the source code, yo
Currently, the FSF has title to lots of GPLed software and encourages
independent developers of GPLed software to assign title to it, because it
has the resources to defend the copyright in court, if necessary.
Also, most of the GPLed software is released under "Version 2 or any later
version" of
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002, Ira Abramov wrote about "Re: questions for RMS":
> > * Sometimes, in order to be able to finish modifying software for which
> >you have the source code, you need to be able to prove that your
> >modification has no unintended consequences
> furthermore, I don't think IBM's laptop modems are any of his concern
> either. IBM has dropped support and pre-installation of Linux on
> workstations and laptop and are only selling it on server platforms.
> sad, but true. if they officially don't support it, you can't complain
> about their ch
Quoting Amir Tal, from the post of Mon, 23 Dec:
> we are preparing a list of questions that will be used in an interview
> we are interested in conducting with RMS in his upcoming visit.
I see many questions here about Linux and not GNU. don't piss the guy
off for no reason. RMS has made public hi
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002, Amir Tal wrote about "questions for RMS":
> all,
>
> we are preparing a list of questions that will be used in an interview we are
> interested in conducting with RMS in his upcoming visit.
Here's a question:
You are highly regarded as a man
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