Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:44:55 -0700 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [dn-core] Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together" Message-ID: <3B055F97.CEBDC854@acuson.com> References: <002101c0df56$e6c62260$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > Basically, what has happened is that Bruce and his friends > (the signatories on the list of that article are a who's > who of them) have literally made millions of dollars out of > in effect convincing a bunch of developers to GPL their > code, then those Open Source people have set themselves up > in the only point in the GPL code distributon scheme (the > nexus points) where it's possible to make a lot of money. Many of those signatories most assuredly are *not* GPL fanatics. Tim O'Reilly surely isn't. He's one of the very few who will call RMS out to a debate in a public forum. Larry Wall surely isn't. He came up with the Artistic License and his dual licensing scheme so that Perl could be accepted as "Free" by the GNU crowd while at the same time gutting every requirement in the GPL. And Guido von Rossum isn't. Just last month he took RMS to task for continually changing the definition of GPL-compatibility, and said that compatibility with the GPL would no longer be a goal for the Python license. If this list consisted solely of Linux distributors and GNU board members, I would agree with you. But it appears that Bruce actually did try to get a broad slice of the Open Source community. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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