Richard Stallman writes:
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But this is worse than competition--it is unfair competition. The XEmacs developers can and do copy code they like from Emacs. If I could copy the code I like from XEmacs in the same way, at least the rivalry would be fair. But I can't do that, because substantial parts of XEmacs don't have legal papers, or don't have known authors.
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[^] # Re: Excellente initiative!
Posté par account . En réponse à la dépêche Vers un noyau Linux d'origine contrôlée ?. Évalué à 3.
The FSF Point of View
Richard Stallman writes:
[...]
But this is worse than competition--it is unfair competition. The XEmacs developers can and do copy code they like from Emacs. If I could copy the code I like from XEmacs in the same way, at least the rivalry would be fair. But I can't do that, because substantial parts of XEmacs don't have legal papers, or don't have known authors.
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Et ça ne date pas d'hier.
C'est tjs la même question : que signigie libre ?