On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 10:18:09AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Michael Bramer wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 10:38:41PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Michael Bramer wrote: > > > > On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 08:35:51PM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > > > No, copyrights do not cover stupidity, except when used in a sentance ;-) > > > > > > Why would you wish to lie to your users about the conformance of that > > > system? Your name would soon be mud when third party programs failed to > > > run on your system because it really wasn't compliant. > > > > This is the point! > > > > Why would Debian lie to ours users about the conformance of our systems? > > Our name (Debian) would soon be mud when third party programs failed to > > run on our system because it really wasn't compliant. > > > > Debian (and the others distribution) don't lie the users. (In the LJ: 'XXX > > isn't LCS conform. ... The LCS program on this distribution lie the Users...' > > A nice headline in the press.) > > > So you seem to agree that your arguments based on "your" suggested > alternate script have no basis, since Debian would never do that. > > Seems we agree ;-) not in all points :-( Debian don't change LCS programs in a way, that the program say: 'conform' but the System is not conform. But Debian may change 'Pathnames', 'Language' and so. And with this Copyright, Debian can't do this. Debian can not support it! Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux "A system without Perl is like a hockey game without a fight." -- Mitch Wright
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