RE: [OT] an Amicus Curae to the Honorable Thomas Penfield Jackson

From: David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Date: Sat May 06 2000 - 03:35:45 EST


> > There's an article somewhere on www.gnu.org where RMS advocates, in
> > effect, making GPL code "proprietary" to the GPL mob, to force people to
> > use the GPL for their own code if they want access to GPLed libraries.
> > This was rather worrying...

> Which makes RMS no better than Billy et al. So much for *freedom* eh?

        The most amazing bit of hypocrisy, IMO, is RMS (who wishes to destroy the
competitive market in closed-source software) suggesting penalties that
should be applied to Microsoft (a lawsuit alleging that Microsoft has acted
to harm the competitive market in closed-source software). If RMS were
consistent (which up until now, he has been) he would oppose the anti-trust
laws (at least so far as they apply to Microsoft), since they seek to defend
the very thing he seeks to destroy.

        DS

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