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Ghostscript Leaves GNU

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-shame dept.

commanderfoxtrot writes "Ghostscript 7.07 has been released. However, this is the last GNU release. They will continue to make releases under the GNU GPL, but because of disagreements over censorship of the AFPL releases and the development model in the GNU release their development process has become incompatible with the goals of the GNU project as interpreted by Richard Stallman."

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  1. Re:Imagine that by Miguel+de+Icaza · · Score: 0, Funny

    "who is the bigger troll, the troll or the shill who feeds the troll?" - miguel

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  2. GNU/Ghostscript by hayriye · · Score: 5, Funny

    You must call it GNU/Ghostscript...

    1. Re:GNU/Ghostscript by FlowerPotAdmin · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're running ghostscript as your kernel??? (Sick, sick people... ::shakes head::)

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