"I feel dirty"

Posted Mar 31, 2005 23:52 UTC (Thu) by cdmiller (guest, #2813)
In reply to: Stallman on the State of GNU/Linux (OfB) by havoc
Parent article: Stallman on the State of GNU/Linux (OfB)

How about this, purge your system of every GPL compatible program and go about your merry way. That goes for any system you run, Windows, OS X, BSD, whatever. It would actually be interesting to see what is left.

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"I feel dirty"

Posted Apr 1, 2005 1:25 UTC (Fri) by Zarathustra (guest, #26443) [Link] (5 responses)

What is left? everything.

And others are moving in that direction; I hope to welcome Theo to GNU-Free land soon.

Plan 9

Posted Apr 1, 2005 5:19 UTC (Fri) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link]

Plan 9 wasn't Free Software until very recently. When Bell published it under a not-really-free license, it was RMS who explained to them why no community was developing. When they finally really-released it, it was probably too late. If they had listened earlier, Plan 9 might have been the basis for something really important. It might even have displaced POSIX, if (e.g.) Apple had used it under Macosix, or IBM had picked it up for their company-wide OS consolidation. Now, tragically, it's just a fascinating curiosity.

"I feel dirty"

Posted Apr 1, 2005 9:44 UTC (Fri) by cantsin (guest, #4420) [Link] (1 responses)

I wonder how any BSD will be able to move to "GNU-Free land soon" without gcc as their compiler (and ports system backend) and, not to forget, GNU groff as their manpage formatter.

"I feel dirty"

Posted Apr 1, 2005 13:55 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Indeed, OpenBSD's GCC was divergent for many years, but is converging with the official tree at considerable speed (thanks mostly to Marc Espie's sterling work).

"I feel dirty"

Posted Apr 1, 2005 16:34 UTC (Fri) by b7j0c (guest, #27559) [Link]

>> What is left? everything.

you are an idiot. and you don't run plan9 as your OS so don't tell us you do.

"I feel dirty"

Posted Apr 1, 2005 20:47 UTC (Fri) by cdmiller (guest, #2813) [Link]

Heh, key phrase is "GPL compatible", for the list of GPL compatible free software licenses see:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatib...

The list of GPL compatible licenses is a good indicator of what software one would be doing without after going to "GNU-Free land".