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>At 12:12 PM 1/23/98 -0500, you wrote: >>>At 12:29 PM 1/22/98 -0500, you wrote: >>>I understand now. The opinions you expressed only pertain to the GPL >>>discussion. That's clear. Please ignore my earlier posts. They were made >>>before I understood what you said in this message. >> >>Hmm, I think that was my first post on this thread, so maybe you >>were thinking of someone else. But I don't recall the threadlet >>involving anything *except* the GPL and the challenges it poses >>to embedded software. > >Several statements in this discussion (not necessaraly by you) were made >that did not sound like they were intended to be limited to the context of >GPL software, e.g. "Privilege is keeping others down" or "I have little >sympathy with someone who wants to keep hardware specs secret merely so as >to beat out someone else'. I did not take these statements to be limited to >the context of GPL software. Okay, yeah, I can't figure out the comment about privilege anyway, though I guess in some context by some definition it might be true. (To me, it's a privilege to serve God. That has nothing to do with keeping others down, since I don't consider it to be something exclusive to me or any given group of people. Probably a bad example in this context, though.) I think the statement about "having little sympathy" was rms explaining why *he* didn't care much about conflicts between the GPL and embedded. Sometimes context gets lost, though. At the time I responded, I thought the context was obvious from the email rms sent containing the comment, but I haven't reviewed that, because it seems unimportant now. >Sorry, for the confusion. 'salright. tq vm, (burley)