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To: burzum; Golden Eagle
You have no idea what you are talking about. Have you even read the GPL?

Due to the large amount of small (and often extremely obscure and used by almost no one) tools owned by the FSF and available in most shovelware Linux distros, Stallman/FSF owns more copyrights by title in such distros than any other single entity. Thus, under this warped accounting method, Sun gives OpenOffice with about 10 million lines of code and it counts as one, the same as a small GNU program that has maybe a few hundred lines of code.

He's gotten better with his claims. A while back he claimed that the FSF holds the copyright to more open source than anyone and they own the copyright on most Linux distro code . I withstood a barrage of insults and libel, and numerous repetitions of these falsehoods, after I showed him he was wrong. It took him quite a while to admit that these statements are false, although he warped them into the technically true but irrelevant claim above so he could claim some sort of empty victory.

86 posted on 08/15/2007 9:16:33 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

Yep we know, you’ll stop at nothing to defend green party leftists, foreign criminal hackers, and attack Christians and Republicans. It’s what you come here to do.


88 posted on 08/16/2007 4:45:54 AM PDT by Golden Eagle
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