Re: Microsoft needs a help strategy

[Peter Köhlmann]

ZnU wrote:

> In article <857i4d20h7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> ZnU <znu@fake.invalid> writes:
>> 
>> > I understand that the FSF is really, really hung up on every detail
>> > of the GPL, but frankly, they're fanatics.
>> 
>> Fanatics have copyright like everybody else.
> 
> Sure, I'm not saying they don't have a right to try to enforce the
> requirement to make source available even in the case of unmodified
> binary distribution. I'm just saying that there's no particular reason
> why anyone who's more interested in the practical impact of the GPL
> rather than the ideology behind it should be particularly concerned
> about entities failing to distribute source as required in instances
> where that source is trivially available elsewhere.
> 

And you know that that source "trivially available elsewhere" is exactly
the one used to build the binary how?
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