From: "Geo." 

"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
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> Heck, there were even Apple ][ clones until Apple started sueing. What's
> the one I'm thinking of, the Superbrain? No, can't have been - that was
> a Z80.

Laser? Franklin? something like that?

> It's been driving it for 10 years now. MS is a factor but it's not the
> whole story.

right, I don't disagree with that, open source and freeware have survived
on their own for years.

> 
> I just wish Stallman would stop pretending that he invented the idea and
> somehow has the right to redefine the word "free" to mean whatever he
> chooses it to mean.
>
> The only free software is public domain.
> 

I still think stallman had a real stroke of genius with the GPL. It's the
only way to write free software and ban commercial software from absorbing
it thus creating a true competitive situation between the two. That's
something that didn't exist before and it is probably the biggest real
difference between the current free/open movement and the one that has
existed for years.

Geo.

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