OT: "proprietary" software

[Chris Mohler]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
> HiP
>
> Chris Mohler wrote:
>> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>>>
>>>> Piper:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> comparative observations on Thunderbird? It is proprietary SW so am not
>>>>> considering it but I am curious
>>>> Thunderbird is proprietary software and you are therefore not using it?
>>>> That is an interesting statement for someone who is using a mail client
>>>> identifying itself as "Microsoft Outlook Express" to send this very
>>>> statement
>>>    As said before, Thunderbird is made by the same people who make
>>> Firefox. Both are made for Linux and Windows up to the latest model. It
>>> is free and you download it from a web page and it is licensed under the
>>> GNU standard. So please go away.
>>>
>>
>> FF and Thunderbird are both licensed under the MPL (Mozilla Public
>> License) - not GPL.
> So? What's the point you are making here?

Only what I said before: FF and Thunderbird are both licensed under
the MPL (Mozilla Public License) - not GPL.  I did not intend to imply
that one is any better than the other.

Chris