Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 21:07:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction Message-ID: <199807220107.VAA14902@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <19980722103127.I8098@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Jul 22, 98 10:31:27 am
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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 > Anyone outside of Redmond. I'd love to see Cygnus... but they're not a non-profit. There's Free/Net/OpenBSD. (Yeah, right..) How about FreeVMS 8-) How about O'Reilly using the money to donate some of their books to school and small town libraries? Realistically -- at least it's not going to Redmond. Bill +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bill and/or Carolyn Pechter | pechter@shell.monmouth.com | | Bill Gates is a Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in | | a James Bond movie -- Dennis Miller | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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