[plug] Fwd: [SLUG] Lucky 13 for Linux

[Christian]

skribe wrote:
> 
> On 13-Apr-99 Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> 
> > I am recieving Austudy while I do my honours project - which is
> > effectively a piece of free software.
> 
> So you're being subsidised by my tax dollars?  Hardly free then is it?  Get out
> into the real world, son, before you start trying to ram this socialist nonsense
> down our throats.  Intellectual property rights are not something that can be
> tossed away because you feel it's inconvenient.  Those rights have been earnt by
> the blood, sweat and tears of the coders, writers and artists that own them.

As Greg says, you obviously have no clue what "free software" means. 
Anyway, if you feel like this, why use Linux?  Why not Solaris or one of
the BSDs?  I imagine it must be very difficult for you to understand the
mindset of the people who's software you use since they are, from your 
perspective at least, throwing their rights away.

Regards,

Christian.

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freedom, which they can then accept or reject. If people don't want
freedom, they may be out of luck with me, but I won't allow them to 
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