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Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Subject: Re: SGI releases IA64 C C++ and F90 compiler under GPL
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 21:51:17 +0200
- CC: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej at zembu dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005211016310.1320-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2000, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> > 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.
> What?
> Ethics don't count? Law before morals?
>
> Jawohl, mein herr! The Third Reich welcomes you.
>
> (This should also stop the thread, I don't think we can go further ;)
Let me concur fully with Linus here (even though I do not agree
completely with him in this thread).
If you want to get a full treatment on "the Laws" read "the trial of
Socrates" by I.F.Stone.
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