[ppc-mobo] Re: GNU License for Hardware

Kristofer Coward kris at snow.utoronto.ca
Thu Oct 14 20:47:39 UTC 1999


>     The rest is apps
>     (many of that being programs that do a job that no free software does
>     satisfactorily yet, and even accepted as a necessary evil by FSF.
> 
> The truth is more complex than that.  We don't accept non-free
> apps as a necessary evil, but we do accept that many GNU users
> want to run them.

I suppose I should have been clearer with the implicit "until a free
alternative can be written" in my statement of non-free applications as a
necessary evil.




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