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Re: Emacs repository benchmark: bzr and git


From: Randal L. Schwartz
Subject: Re: Emacs repository benchmark: bzr and git
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:55:58 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (berkeley-unix)

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

David> Uh, an arbitrary political decision wiping away all technical arguments
David> is what started free software in the first place.

Only for the revisionists.  Free software existed long before the GNU Project.

The GNU Project's contribution was a legally enforcable license to ensure
share-and-share-alike for authors who chose to use the legal system to enforce
their politics.  This was definitely an important contribution at the time,
but it wasn't the thing that "started free software".

Those of us who have been around from the beginning must tell the story *as*
it happened, not replay the revisionist's story.  In other words, if you don't
lie, I won't have to respond.

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