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From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>
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Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 21:07:02 -0400 (EDT)
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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

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