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Pascal Bourguignon

2006-06-13, 7:21 pm

Frank Silvermann <invalid@invalid.net> writes:
> I agree with your assessment and have linux on my mind today as I
> endeavor to create a linux partition. If I have a criticism of the
> linux, it's the something_for_nothing philosophy, an attitude, which I
> believe only redistributes costs. I paid $25 for a disk that I
> believe will provide me with a c99 compiler. I'm all about open
> source, but I claim that, e.g. Cbfalconer gets a better world when you
> get his ggets(). It is not the people who give that bother me,
> though. That something 'should' be free is philosophically
> incomprehensible. frank


You didn't terraform this planet did you? Would you God to present
you the invoice for the air, the heath, the gravity?

That's something shouldn't be free, this is philosophically incomprehensible!
The more so when this something is Speach.


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