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falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

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glibc is finally free software

Thought this was interesting -- glibc hasn't been truly free software until a week ago.

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon- … /index.htm

Wonder what RMS thinks of this...

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tsv

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From: UK

Registered: 2008-12-03

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Re: glibc is finally free software

The important thing is that these things can be responded to fast once they show up, or at the very least once they become a problem. Up until fairly recently there was a similar problem in X which went widely ignored (though a known problem).

But yes, it's good it was found, and dealt with

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: glibc is finally free software

Of course, Debian and Fedora (mentioned in the article as striving to be 100% Free Software) include binary blobs in their kernels, but ah well