Hi Robert (and all)!

"Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent)" <Jarvisb at timken.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew C. Greenberg [mailto:werdna at mucow.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 8:05 AM
> > 
> > On Thursday, November 1, 2001, at 04:00  AM, 
> > goran.hultgren at bluefish.se wrote:
> > 
> > > I do understand your observation but honestly - all these 
> > > comparisons between FSF/GNU/Richard Stallman and Communism/
> > > Soviet Union are:
> > <snip!>
> > 
> > Well, not to support the analogy, but there is little doubt 
> > that "free software" engineered so you can't do things with
> > it isn't particularly free.
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> Once again you have clearly and rationally stated that which I am too
> emotional or inarticulate to say myself.  Thank you.

I am sorry if I came on too "hard", it wasn't on purpose. I have reread
your original post and
realized I might have reacted too strongly. I apologize for that.

I just feel that the comparison with the old Soviet union is quite
unfair, not because
of your reasoning - the analogy is in fact quite ok from a logical
perspective - the GPL does definitely have a lot more clauses/rules than
say BSD/MIT.

What I react to is more the association of GPL with communism (in it's
negative forms).

Anyway, sorry again!

> Bob Jarvis
> Compuware @ Timken

regards, Göran