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To: MikeinIraq; Prime Choice; Salo

What are you guys, Chinese sympathizers? Can't they get a free copy of this Red Hawk Linux if they want? Isn't that the license that Red Hawk has to use? It's not optional, is it? Red Hawk can't say no, you can't have that if I want a copy can they? Don't they have to give a copy to anyone who wants a copy?

Isn't that how Richard Stallman's GPL license works? Anybody that creates anything with it and distributes it has to also give it away, FOR FREE, to anyone right? Including the Chinese government, who can then rename it Red Flag, right? Isn't that what they do with their free copies of Linux over there? Rename them Red Flag?

Or are you saying they can't do that with this Red Hawk Linux? If not, explain why. And drop the crybaby personal attacks for once. I don't think you can.


21 posted on 11/29/2005 8:57:53 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle

why should we take some loser who hawks Microsoft like it's the 2nd coming seriously?


22 posted on 11/29/2005 9:01:32 PM PST by MikefromOhio
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To: Golden Eagle
Do you still inappropriately touch children?

What are you guys, Chinese sympathizers?

Physician, heal thyself.

And drop the crybaby personal attacks for once.

26 posted on 11/30/2005 7:01:04 AM PST by Salo (He hath touched me with his noodly appendage. Ramen.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Q - "Don't they have to give a copy to anyone who wants a copy?"

A - "No. The GPL gives him permission to make and redistribute copies of the program if he chooses to do so. He also has the right not to redistribute the program, if that is what he chooses." - http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIDemandACopy

"The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization." - http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic

Another verbal defecation. Read before spouting hysterically, please.


27 posted on 11/30/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by FLAMING DEATH (And now, for something completely different: www.donaldlancow.com)
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To: Golden Eagle

"What are you guys, Chinese sympathizers?"

No thats Billg. (pronounced bilge)

The guy who lets Chinese communists see his source code, but not Americans. That and gives his OS to them for free.


36 posted on 12/10/2005 10:44:46 AM PST by adam_az (It's the border, stupid!)
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