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Re: Binary Driver Issues

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Kilburn)
Tue Jun 18 18:18:30 1996

To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:05:33 -0400."
             <199606181505.LAA03324@etinc.com> 
Date: 	Tue, 18 Jun 1996 17:09:23 +0200
From: Mike Kilburn <mike@lserv.conexio.co.za>

> 
> Of course, our routers are based on FreeBSD, which we "didnt spend a dime
> on" and we
> dont have these problems. Luckily for us its a lot faster too :-)

You see you have two standards. It ok for you to *use* free software to
sell routers without spending a dime on development of them but you wont
let anyone have your extentions that you developed. This is what the GPL
is to prevent.





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