[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> Jeremy Hankins hasn't explained well enough for me why in that
> future we would be unable to make the kinds of free software we have
> now.
Ah, I wasn't aware of that. I'll see if I can flesh it out a bit for
you.
Imagine a world with omnipres
Jeremy Hankins said:
> Imagine a world with omnipresent connectivity, and a lot of copylefted
> software. Someone decides that they could make the browser into a
> platform (remember Netscape & the MS antitrust trial). So they take
> commonly available Free software packages and stick them behind
* Jeremy Hankins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030312 18:53]:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> So they take
> commonly available Free software packages and stick them behind a web
> interface. Gcc, tetex, emacs, etc. They lock them down so that no
> one can access the filesystem of the
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:45:36PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> If anyone had claimed such any kind of distribution
> in this area some years ago, I'd taken it for a good joke[1].
[...]
> [1] compareable to a cat /bin/clear on a Solaris of the right version.
I presume this was like Solaris's /
Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:45:36PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> > If anyone had claimed such any kind of distribution
> > in this area some years ago, I'd taken it for a good joke[1].
> [...]
> > [1] compareable to a cat /bin/clear on a Solaris of the right version.
>
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