Hmm, I think I agree, I've only used linux for about 6 months, and prior to these shenanigans I had only heard of the gpl. After all this started I went and read up on it. Just thought I'd throw that in.
Oh, and someone mentioned UT being a "windows school" http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/11/1749247.shtml?tid=109 I thought that was a funny little coincidence Al On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Shane Williams wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Benjamin Bradley wrote: > > > I don't see what the history of the world has to do with a name change. > > > > > might find history to be surprising. It is especially well to remember > > > this in the era of DMCA and SSCA. > > > > Just because they are laws doesn't mean that they are good things. Have you > > read what either of those bills entail? I suggest you take a detailed look > > at what each one says, and then decide if you want this to be remembered as > > "the era of DMCA and SSCA" > > Umm, I think that was his point. In an era where such god-awful ideas > as DMCA can become laws, it might serve the upcoming generation of > computer users to see that it was not always this way. The longer bad > laws stay laws, the more people come to just accept them and the > harder it is to undo them (compare and contrast the criminalization of > marijuana with the prohibition of alcohol). > > A name change might bring people to question why the group bothered to > change it, and maybe learn that the idea of the GPL was one of the > critical factors in the success of linux. > > -- > Public key #7BBC68D9 at | Shane Williams > http://pgp.mit.edu/ | Systems Administrator UT-GSLIS > =----------------------------------+------------------------------- > All syllogisms contain three lines | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Therefore this is not a syllogism | www.gslis.utexas.edu/~shanew > > > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux > _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
