[forum] Re: Fabricated responses
Alexander Terekhov
forum@xfree86.org
Wed, 07 Apr 2004 10:57:12 +0200
mark kandianis wrote:
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> >And what and when did you send to me personally (i.e. privately)?
>
> you know man i don't like getting into pissing contests with people.
You've never sent me anything personally (in private).
> it's bad karma. let's just say you made a mistake and won't do it again.
I've made no mistake. And, BTW, that conversation was between RMS
and Jean-Marc Lienher, not me.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3E5F3EBC.799F4043%40bluewin.ch
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> I don't believe Microsoft SHOULD have a right to prevent me from
> distributing an application that calls some internal functions in one
> of Excel's DLL files, period. Why is it a "Good Thing" if GPL authors
> are allowed to restrict me in this way?
Don't ask this kind of question to RMS, or he will drop
the conversation.
I had discussion on this subjet on 4 newsgroups and I had a
private discussion with RMS.
Now I wrote my own opinion here :
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The simple thing is that the FSF's "linking" claims (both static
and dynamic) are barred by the doctrines of copyright misuse and
first sale.
regards,
alexander.