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Author: Rick Moen
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Backup plans: was Which is free, which is open source, et al.
Quoting Michael Siegel (msi@???):

> Am 13.01.2018 um 18:02 schrieb Steve Litt:
>
> [snip]
>
> > * OpenBSD now has hardware assisted virtual machines and is a great
> > and stable "Linux".
>
> sed 's/Linux/Unix-like OS/'
>
> Also, there's a considerable (non-technical) difference between what
> GNU+Linux distributions like Devuan on the one side and OpenBSD on the
> other consider free software. Linux is being released under the terms of
> the GPLv2, OpenBSD isn't. In fact, OpenBSD is anti-GPL:


You might as well save your (figurative) breath. It turns out, Steve
wasn't attempting a serious discussion of what is free and what is open
source as proclaimed in his subject header. He was just recycling his
standard polemic and attempting to make it look like that other discussion.

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