Re: Matt Assay Tells the Truth

[Rjack]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Rjack wrote:
> > The X window system X10R3 was released in the spring of *1986*
> > under the MIT license.
> >
> > The GPLv1 wasn't written until February 1989. Richard Stallman
> > was there at MIT during the years 1986 - 1989 during which time
> > he decided to hijack the MIT license.
>
> Ironic that you should mention X Window, since it illustrates why
> software should be under the GPL. For a few months, before 
> community pressure foiled the plan, the X Consortium and the Open
> Group tried to make X Window proprietary.
>
> See <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/x.html>.


For a few months, before community pressure foiled the plan, the X
Consortium and the Open Group tried to make X Window proprietary.

Egad!! I thought *freedom* for software developers meant licensing
their software any way they wished. I didn't know it was the GPL or
the highway.

Your link to the self-serving rant by Richard Stallman does nothing
but confirm his monomanical compulsion to destroy the concept of
intellectual property.

Sincerely,
Rjack :)