From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 21 18:03:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA28455 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:03:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28439; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:03:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA03158; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807220100.SAA03158@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Greg Lehey cc: Mike Smith , Brett Glass , Bill/Carolyn Pechter , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU software (was: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:20:33 +0930." <19980722102033.H8098@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:00:16 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > OK, I suppose we need to ask the question "Why support at all?". > There are some signs that the FSF are going down the tubes, quite > possibly as a result of rms's attitude, but definitely also because > they're not the only kid on the block any more. It would be fair to > ask "what have they done recently?". Nonetheless, I think an donation > is appropriate as long as we use their stuff, even if their main > contribution nowadays may be maintaining the source trees. Not an unreasonable question. I would want to ask "what are they going to do for me"? Perhaps it is time for them to move on? It's all a bit rhetorical, as I won't be able to go anyway. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message