[ale] SCO lies to Congress too

Jeff Hubbs hbbs at comcast.net
Mon Jan 26 11:43:55 EST 2004


You can't deal with Free Software such as Linux without running into
attacks on the freedom that the GPL accords.  Conflicts involving that
freedom don't get very far without running into the political process. 
GPL-granted freedom gets discussed here.

- Jeff

On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 10:58, Geoffrey wrote:
> Dan Lambert wrote:
> > I'd like some clarification here, if I may. I'm new to this list, so
> > I am not familiar with the rules of the road.
> > 
> > I thought when I joined this list that this was about the Linux OS.
> > Did I somehow join the wrong list?
> > 
> > Let me know now, and if I accidentally joined a political bashing
> > list, I'll quit now and go find a list that's really about computers!
> 
> Every now and again, you'll get some bursts of totally unrelated/off 
> topic posts.  Often times, the poster will make a feeble attempt at 
> linking it to the actual topic of the list.  Other times, they don't 
> even try.
> 
> Unfortunately, I've been guilty of such and further have been drawn into 
> others.  I've also complained about some.
> 
> At any rate, I don't think it's going to end, but the list is a very 
> good place for assistance with Linux.  We have some very knowledgable 
> folks on the list.
> 
> I've recently subscribed to the SuSE Linux list and have found it to be 
> even worse than ALE regarding OT topics.  Further that list contains a 
> huge # of postings and I'll be unsubscribing because it's too difficult 
> to wade through the fluff.
-- 
Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net>



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