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Subject: Re: [opensource] Re: Petition Against Official Endorsement of
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On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 00:36, Michael Bernstein wrote:

> However, when a whole movement based
> on the idea of creating non-proprietary software decides to utilize
> proprietary software in order to better create free software, I feel that
> there is some hypocrisy going on.  Rather then griping about the
> shortcomings of CVS or various other solutions, wouldn't it be better to
> create a non-proprietary solution to the problem?  

This movement you speak of is doing another kernel and I would agree
with this petition in that context but linux has never been about
anything else than doing cool things and sharing it with others.

> Are we forgetting why
> Linux is around and where it came from? 

Apparently!

> agreement.  Also, it's amazing to see what kinds of levels people will sink
> to when a real issue is brought forth.  The whole osu nazi thing, touching.

You are new to this list I see :) 


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