Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:31:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction Message-ID: <19980722103127.I8098@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199807220054.SAA21379@lariat.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 06:54:44PM -0600 References: <199807212103.PAA17229@lariat.lariat.org> <199807211939.NAA15713@lariat.lariat.org> <199807212052.QAA08270@shell.monmouth.com> <199807212103.PAA17229@lariat.lariat.org> <19980722093121.E8098@freebie.lemis.com> <199807220054.SAA21379@lariat.lariat.org>
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On Tuesday, 21 July 1998 at 18:54:44 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 09:31 AM 7/22/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> That may be. But do you intend to stop using GNU software because of >> that? If not, I think it's fair to support the people who supply it. > > The "people who supply it" will not get any of the money. The money will > go entirely to an organization whose purpose is to promote the GPL, and > software published under it, to the detriment of those who don't agree that > the GPL is The Word. In short, to the detriment of FreeBSD. In fact, I've just looked at the FSF web page, and it brought back to me that I keep confusing the FSF and the GNU project. What I was talking about is really the GNU project, the people who actually deal in software, rather than the FSF, which is a political wing rather akin to Sinn Fein. I've never been too keen on them. OK, then, who *should* get the donation? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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