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Re: Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge



On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:59:53AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> As an aside... or as a possibly related issue, consider glibc -- here
> is a piece of software which is licensed as free (though RMS might say
> that the LGPL licensed components aren't as free as he'd like), but
> which in practice is still distributed in almost-binary form (you
> can't build current versions of glibc on linux without having
> extremely current binaries because the version skew is so great).  In
> essence, the preferred form for working with this software must
> include its binaries...

I suggest we all give up and go back to the abacus.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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