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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > Where did your assumption that Melvin has the canned config files to
> > do that still available come from?  More fundamentally: which should 
> > he *have* to have those configs available?
> 
> Because the GPL says he's entitled to them ?

You miss my point.  Sure he's entitled to them.  But why should he
*have to have them*?  They're extra state which, in the presence
of a proper autoconfigurator, he doesn't need.
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