Re: Emacs repository benchmark: bzr and git

[Óscar Fuentes]

address@hidden (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

> David> Uh, an arbitrary political decision wiping away all technical arguments
> David> is what started free software in the first place.
>
> Only for the revisionists.  Free software existed long before the GNU Project.
>
> The GNU Project's contribution was a legally enforcable license to ensure
> share-and-share-alike for authors who chose to use the legal system to enforce
> their politics.  This was definitely an important contribution at the time,
> but it wasn't the thing that "started free software".

Free Software, ("Free" in the GNU sense), is nothing without a legally
enforceable license that protects its freedom. Maybe you are talking
about what later was known as Open Source? (BSD license, etc).

[snip]

-- 
Oscar