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Re: [school-discuss] Some questions about OSS in education:



On 15 Aug 2004 at 17:45, Daniel Taylor wrote:

> > BTW, Why doesn't Stallman like the the word "pirate" applied
> > to software?
> 
> because it is stupid to equate helping people with attacking a ship, 
> attacking a ship is bad, helping people (by giving software for 
> free) is good. Hence the dislike of the term.
> 

Robin Hood was also "helping people" but wasn't he "Prince of
Thieves"?

just a joke,
Daniel