[plug] Fwd: Cygnus Solutions

[David Campbell]

Date sent:      	Mon, 15 Feb 1999 11:44:01 +0800 (WST)
From:           	Matt Kemner <zombie at networx.net.au>
To:             	plug at linux.org.au
Subject:        	Re: [plug] Fwd: Cygnus Solutions
Send reply to:  	plug at linux.org.au

> On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Christian wrote:
> > 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?

Does <B>ANYBODY</B> know about Cygnus involvements in GNU projects?!?

Before you start flaming them you should take a look through the 
acknowledgments on gcc.