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Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on "The Four Freedoms"


From: Richard Tobin
Subject: Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- raya's research on "The Four Freedoms"
Date: 5 Oct 2006 16:22:39 GMT

In article <mailman.7764.1160061111.9609.gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org>,
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra  <rms@1407.org> wrote:

>> There were many other things, but they weren't the web.  In the case
>> of newsgroups, they weren't even the internet.

>Erms... the Internet is now based on IP, as it may be very well based on
>something else in the future, and certainly didn't "start" as IP,
>although it wasn't called Internet then.

Well, it seems a little strange to say it was the internet when it
wasn't called the internet and was based on internet protocols, but
even if you do, it wasn't what newsgroups used.  Newsgroups were
originally distributed by UUCP, and that certainly wasn't the
internet.

-- Richard


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