Re: GR: Removal of non-free
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 11:31:13PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hey, if a DFSG free equivalent of tome is available, I'll
> migrate. (Branden: saying that nethack exists, and is a replacement
> for tome is like saying that gopher was an adequate alternative for
> http).
Ahh, you should know better than to spit upon Gopher :-)
Gopher software distribution for UNIX
Copyright (C) 1991-2000 University of Minnesota
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 John Goerzen and the gopher developers
Seriously, you will likely find people that make a serious argument that
Gopher was, and even is, an adequate alternative for HTTP (for at least
some purposes). And, I wouldn't be devoting my time to maintaining
Gopher and PyGopherd if I didn't believe that was, at least sometimes,
the case.
-- John
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