On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 19:37, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:02, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > Kevin McKinley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:44:34 -0400 > > > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > When was this? It's pretty much been this way since the late 70s and > > > > > surely since the 80s. Unix was never free at first. Not until Linux > > > > > came around and the BSD's became free. > > > > > > > > Au contraire! > > > > > > > > When UNIX was first released it was free as in both freedom and beer. > > > > > > > > Then the lawyers got involved. :( > > > > > > It was developped by AT&T. Did they release it as free software, but > > > then revoke their free license. If so how did they take it back > > > later. Is it possible to retract a license like that? If they didn't > > > why did the BSD's have to get rid of all AT&T code. > > > > Well, if the "free license" was written to be revokable, then they > > could revoke it. Remember, as much as some people would like to > > think it, RMS didn't carve the GPL in stone with his finger, so > > that Moses could carry it down the Mountain... > > "You're free to use this software as long as we feel like it", doesn't > sound like a Free Software license to me.
Who says it's a Free Software license? I sure did not... AT&T created it, AT&T had the right to how, when and under what conditions to disseminate it. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Oh, great altar of passive entertainment, bestow upon me | | thy discordant images at such speed as to render linear | | thought impossible" (Calvin, regarding TV) | +----------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
