From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon May 21 14:59: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 013DD37B43C for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 14:59:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA69D2; Thu, 17 May 2001 17:52:41 -0700 Message-ID: <3B0470FA.C16F5F06@acuson.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 17:46:50 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anders Nordby Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together" References: <20010517161636.A28350@totem.fix.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anders Nordby wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a little dissatisfied with the fact that it seems Bruce Perens > doesn't seem to want to include any BSD persons on a list of "free > software leaders". Is he really that much of a zealot, and does he lack > history knowledge? Or is it just me that got this all wrong? Did he > actually ask any BSD persons? Bruce is a very big GPL person, so much so that he quit the OSI because they promoted openness instead of freedom. However, the group of people he included is well representative of the Open Source community. Richard Stallman and Miguel de Icaza are balanced by Larry Wall and Guido Van Rossum. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message