Fwd: Re: [Fsf-friends] Continuation....of Basics......

[Joe Steeve]

> You are a talented literate here my friend, But there are THOUSANDS 
> (literally) who can trust a person who poses to be trust-worthy for 
> sometime before he delivers the package, and hence can easily be cheated 

Well. You fail to see the point. Suppose I'm the author of a software
package. Supposing I'm a malicious person, and that I put some loopholes
into the software., and release it as Free Software. Then, the source code
is going to be seen by scores of people who'll figure within a shortwhile
that I'm a `fake'. That is the advantage here. 

> (atleast in India). Some of the greatest laws in India have cute loop 
> holes, so how tough is it to forge software signatures (esp. if its only 
> the ASCII text). Im not against anything per se.

Try forging a digital signature.. ;-) If you are successful then you should
probably apply for a PhD at MIT (Massachusettes Institute of Technology) Its
not ascii text. It is a encrypted hash of the original message. Which cannot
be created without the public key of the author.

> Sorry for typo, ya, its "GNU Not Unix"... but what does the first word 
> "GNU" stands for in "GNU Not Unix" (obviously its not a recursion)? And 

It is a recursive acronym. 

> yes, I've visited www.gnu.org scores of times, but couldnt locate it 
> there too.....

The first paragraph on http://www.gnu.org/ says about GNU. Tell me you did
not bother to read it.

Cheers,
Joe

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