[Gcl-devel] Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GCL compliance and Bill Schelter

[Mike Dewar]

Hi Mike,

Your point seemed very plain to me.  You described the source of the
"gift" of Axiom code as "an appalling example of the subjugation ... "
etc.  You copied the message to the axiom-developer list where everybody
knows that NAG was that source.  I'm happy to accept your clarification,
and to resume my place amongst the good guys :-)  I would however echo
Tim Daly's comments about the IBM team, who were (and still are,
although they are no longer working together) a tremendous bunch of
individuals.

Cheers, Mike.

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 09:28:45AM +1000, Mike Thomas wrote:
> Hi Mike.
> 
> Unfortunately I didn't made my point clearly enough and you have got the
> wrong end of the stick.
> 
> | > From a practical point of view, I would hate to look a gift
> | horse (free BSD
> | > Axiom)in the mouth when the gift came from such an appalling
> | example (IBM,
> | > at the very least from the Thomas J Watson years apparently) of the
> | > subjugation of moral responsibility to commercial and 20th century right
> | > wing political imperatives.
> | The "gift", as you call it, came from NAG, not IBM.  Perhaps you would
> | like to retract this statement or clarify in what way we are "an
> | appalling example of the subjugation of moral responsibility to
> | commercial and 20th century right wing political imperatives".
> 
> I didn't make myself sufficiently clear, I was referring to IBM, not NAG.
> 
> If you would like to look further into why I said this about IBM in the
> Thomas J Watson years, I suggest you read:
> 
> Black, Edwin, "IBM and the Holocaust - The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi
> Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation", 2001, Little, Brown and
> Company, London.
> 
> I'm sorry for not being sufficiently clear on that and for not being
> sufficiently clear on my real (but unfortunately implied) point, which was:
> 
>   - I felt that it was better not to try and link the licencing terms of
> Axiom with the licencing terms of GCL through the GPL.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
> 
> 
> 
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