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Re: shaper or whatever

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin M Bealer)
Wed Jun 26 05:47:03 1996

Date: 	Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:25:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin M Bealer <kmb203@psu.edu>
To: Speed Racer <shagboy@thecia.net>
cc: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>, Alvin Starr <alvin@eyepoint.com>,
        linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.960625195621.shagboy@thecia.net>

On Tue, 25 Jun 1996, Speed Racer wrote:

> On 25-Jun-96 dennis@etinc.com wrote:
> >>enough to figure a way out of the problem. I have yet to see a perfect 
> >>licencing agreement. GPL serves a purpose in the computer comunity. If 
> >>you do not like the GPL restrictions then just walk away, for god's sake 
> >>do not piss away our bandwidth with this infintile tit-for-tat banter.
> >
> >You are an idiot and do not deserve (or could you afford) one second
> >of my time
> 
> Whoops, too late.  I know you can't type that fast.
> 
> Calling each other "idiot" is certainly not appropriate behavior for this

(clipped stupid psychology)

> 
> And, Dennis, Alvin's right in this case.  Go bitch to RMS if you don't like
> the GPL, not to us.
> 
> shag
> >Dennis
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> Judd Bourgeois     | When we are planning for posterity,
> shagboy@thecia.net | we ought to remember that virtue is
> Finger for PGP key | not hereditary.        Thomas Paine

cd /usr/src/linux

egrep shagboy < CREDITS
egrep alvin < CREDITS
egrep kmb203 < CREDITS

Wow, imagine that.  Looks like none of us has much right to criticize. 
Well, I'll be.  Thought for sure so much talking must have come from people
who'd given a lot of time -- who'd dedicated themselves and wanted Dennis to
do the same.  Who'd have ever thought none of us had written a line of code
into the kernel or networking code ...

Responses in email only.

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