Re: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing

Jon M. Taylor (taylorj@ecs.csus.edu)
Sun, 12 Jul 1998 13:34:25 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Erm, no. It only belongs here if someone was going to bugger the
> > kernel this way. No-one was suggesting to do that: Alan was only
> > drawing an analogy, he wasn't seriously proposing it. Hence this
> > thread is irrelevant to the kernel list.
>
> If Linus continues to make such comments he's going to find it
> bloody difficult to explain to a US court why he was saying what
> he has been if a similar kernel case comes up.

I still don't understand why what ANYONE says means ANYTHING.
Isn't the only relevant thing here the text of the GPL?

Jon

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