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To: antiRepublicrat
Here's your quote again from when you were defending free software for the Chicomms:

Just to remind you, Macs run on a free software base, and most of the tools shipped with OS X are free software.

Here's the definition of "free software" from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software):

In the free software movement, free software is a term meaning software that is focused on providing the community with a set of capabilities that other software does not provide....any program that includes or is derived from free software must be made available to the community as free software

Perfect proof of you attempting to blur the lines, just as you did recently when you tried to equate making personal backups to the criminal actions of the Russian hackers who distributed cracks of Apple's OSX to the entire internet, previously trying to claim OSX is "free software", but now somehow be outraged that someone would dare copy any of it.

89 posted on 01/29/2007 5:08:31 AM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Here's your quote again from when you were defending free software for the Chicomms:

No, that was reminding you of your contradictory views.

previously trying to claim OSX is "free software", but now somehow be outraged that someone would dare copy any of it.

Now I see the tenuous logic you used to try a hijack. Even according to the post you quoted, I never claimed OS X is free software. I said it uses free software (most of the server utilities) and runs on a free software base (BSD). Are you going to claim that's a lie now? Anyway, it's actually the proprietary part, the GUI and libraries that sit on top of BSD, that Microsoft is trying to copy.

Although Microsoft finally copied something that's been in free and proprietary UNIX for years -- symbolic file links. It's about time.

93 posted on 01/29/2007 5:53:20 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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