Re: Software in main that is throughly useless without non-free software
James Troup <james@nocrew.org> writes:
> > First, you are removing a very important distinction: You have no
> > control over what is on the other end of the connection.
>
> Eh? So what?
The point is that every single TCP/IP client that is in existance now
or ever will be has a free server available: netcat. This renders
other distinctions meaningless, I think.
There's nothing to stop me from typing TCP/IP stuff to it. In fact, I do
this with the SMTP protocol from both ends on a fairly regular basis.
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