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Subject: Re: getting sponsorship and marketing LDP
From: "John R. Daily" ####@####.####
Date: 14 Dec 2003 02:28:23 -0000
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At (time_t)759794114 David Lawyer wrote:

> It is not what GNU/Linux is about.  It's about creating a system of
> entirely free software for the benefit of the public and maximization of
> welfare by selling software at its marginal cost (which is just the cost
> of making copies --essentially free).

Say what?

GNU can be described that way; the only generalization one can
make about Linux is that it was originally about Linus scratching
an itch in a very public way.  Since then it has become many
things to many people.

-John

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