Re: RMS at it again *sigh*

John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:17:33 -0600


On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 07:04:10AM -0500, Alex Buell wrote:

> I just read an article by RMS in which he is thinking of changing
> libraries over from the LGPL to the GPL. This will have the unwanted
> side-effect of driving commercial interests away from further ports of
> proprietary software (potentially deny these ports' future conversion to
> open source)

No, it will have the desired side-effect of forcing them to use Free
Software instead of being parasites on the free software community.

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