Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030373AbWI1S7j (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:59:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030374AbWI1S7j (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:59:39 -0400 Received: from mail-in-10.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.50]:16536 "EHLO mail-in-01.arcor-online.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030373AbWI1S7i (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:59:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <1158941750.3445.31.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1159342569.2653.30.camel@sipan.sipan.org> <1159359540.11049.347.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060927225815.GB7469@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: "Linus Torvalds" , "Patrick McFarland" , "Chase Venters" , "Theodore Tso" , "Alan Cox" , "Jan Engelhardt" , "Sergey Panov" , "James Bottomley" , "linux-kernel" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:59:20 +0200 To: "linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 996 Lines: 27 > However, now some are beginning to see the light as history > continues to be rewritten and a history lesson is unfolding. > These efforts go back to the days when > "distributions" consisted of 56 floppy disks and Linus was > in Helsinki, working on his degree. The FSF didn't exist, and > GNU was the name of an immature compiler. The FSF was founded in 1985, now who is rewriting history here :-) "GNU" never was the name for the compiler, either. > Sometimes we need > to be reminded of the history of a particular thing because, > once out-of-mind, history tends to be rewritten by those who > would advance in its new "interpretation." I don't really want to know what you try to gain by this "properly composed statement", heh. Segher - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/