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Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL

On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 09:48:13AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

 >  - The requirement to do the copyright assignment is quite controversial.
 >    Here the avowed anti-hoarder is himself hoarding stuff, "in the name of
 >    good". Why? I've heard some legal excuses, but I have yet to hear a
 >    single ethical excuse for it. And I do not think that there is one.

...except, `ethics' don't really count when it comes down to it, because
we're all governed by laws.  So, the legal excuses really are the only
ones that count.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
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