[plug] Fwd: Cygnus Solutions

[Matt Kemner]

On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Christian wrote:

> There's nothing wrong with charging money for GNU software - in fact, the

I know that

> Free Software Foundation encourages this.  Of course, you are completely
> right in that calling something 'GNU' when it's not at all Free software
> (ie, no source code) is probably something bordering on the illegal...

That's what my point is.. They're using someone else's trademark
(registered or not) to help market their product, and in this case, the
word GNU means a lot of things to many people, and most of these things
exclude non-open software.

> Probably the same thing he thinks of that Scriptics guy with the
> unspellable surname (Ousterhout?) and Eric Allman...

What's the story there?

 - Matt