From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 6 19:58:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC21237B405 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:58:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f572tAO92076; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: brett@lariat.org Cc: jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com Subject: Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010606190842.0534b2b0@localhost> References: <20010604200851.A65559@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010606001933H.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010606190842.0534b2b0@localhost> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010606195510N.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 19:55:10 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 28 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Erm, I don't see how that follows. The CIA has enormous resources and a 9 figure yearly budget (that we know about), but that doesn't mean I expect them to go out of their way to tap my phone. They certainly *could* tap my phone, sure, but why should they bother? The same applies to the assumption that corporations are out to bend open source to their will or are even particularly interested in it, and vice-versa. - Jordan From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: BSD direction/Damonnews article Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 19:12:02 -0600 > At 01:19 AM 6/6/2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > >These things always make me really curious. Either people are giving > >companies far more credit for influence wielded > > This is the New Gilded Age, in which corporations have > larger economies and more influence than many countries. > It's easy to see why people might expect corporations to > play a role. > > --Brett > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message