Re: Corel Linux

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> For heaven's sake, this is less than 24 hours old and it's about 1 am
> in California.

Ahhh, but I'm in England and it was around when I read my email.

> Are we grownups here? Or would we rather sound like a bunch of
> 16-year-old punks trying out for gang membership?

Good grief, it was meant humourously, not maliciously. I couldn't give a
damn whether Corel break the gpl or not; I'm sure loads of people do it
every day, I just thought the story was good for a laugh.

> contract). But if we want OSS to go mainstream, we should talk in
> language you might find in the Economist rather than in the headlines
> of the Sun.

OSS is mainstream ;) Heh, well, I like to think so anyways..

> Let them have their morning coffee first, and see if they can think
> clearly after that, whaddyasay?

I honestly wasn't having more than a friendly jibe at Corel, I think
perhaps you got the wrong end of my stick (ooh, matron). I'd be surprised
if they get things fixed in a morning though ;)))

Cheers,

Alex

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