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

[Richard Tobin]

In article <mailman.7760.1160056175.9609.gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org>,
Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> wrote:

>   >   There were many other things, but they weren't the web.  In the
>   >   case of newsgroups, they weren't even the internet.
>
>   >Depends very much on what you define as "the internet".
>
>   I mean the large network running internet protocols.
>
>And that depends on what you define as an internet protocol.  In my
>book, NNTP is a "internet" protocol, and was so from day one.

Yes, that's right, NNTP is an internet protocol.  I'm not sure why you
bring it up though.  I think we agree on which network I am referring
to by "the internet".

>   Of course, nowadays most newsgroup traffic goes over the internet,
>   but that was not originally the case.
>
>Sure it was, but this ofcourse depends on how you define the
>"internet". :-)

If we define the internet as agreed above, newsgroup traffic did not
originally go over it.

-- Richard