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Python 2.0b1 is released!

Grant Griffin g2 at seebelow.org
Sun Sep 10 16:29:27 EDT 2000 
Tim Peters wrote:
> 
...
> BeOpen PythonLabs is stuck in the middle, and so are Python's users.  We and
> you have no real say in the matter.  Guido doesn't hold to the FSF's
> philosophy, but is not opposed to the FSF pursuing it themselves.  So he
> wants a new license "same as the old" license:  one that doesn't try to
> "infect" anything else on its own, but does allow GPL fans to release
> derived & combined works under the GPL when that's what *they* want.  The
> only official philosophies pushed by Guido are the Golden Rule voluntarily
> observed, and that everyone accept him as Benevolent Dictator for Life
> (which is, after all, just the Golden Rule in action <wink>).
> 
> do-unto-guido-as-he-would-have-you-do-unto-him-ly y'rs  - tim

<hehe>

Well, everybody's already heard the following Golden Rule: "He who has
all the gold makes the rules."  But in the USA, at least, a new variant
holds: "He who has all the gold has all the lawyers, so the rules don't
really matter."  (I guess it's a good thing both CNRI and FSF are
"not-for-profits". <0.5 wink>)

a-lawyer-with-a-briefcase-can-steal-more-money-than-_ten_-men-with
   -guns*-(or-even-acquit-O.J.-<wink>)-ly y'rs,

=g2
*Mario Puzo, in "The Godfather"
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