Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:26:56 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Alastair Rankine <alastair@cia.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Draft of Nader letter Message-ID: <199806150027.SAA04541@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <3580BA4900000019@clarence.progmatics.com.au> (added by clarence.progmatics.com.au) References: <199806150000.SAA04235@lariat.lariat.org>
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No, it hasn't. It still says (among other things): "The FreeBSD project is a non-copyleft Unix system that is in the public domain (http://www.freebsd.org)." That's several major errors in one SENTENCE, plus an indication of bias toward a "copyleft" license. What's more, there are TONS of links to Linux resources and only one to FreeBSD. And none to the *BSDs, BeOS, QNX, etc. --Brett At 10:21 AM 6/15/98 +1000, Alastair Rankine wrote: >At 06:00 PM 14/06/98 -0600, you wrote: >>James Love, assistant to Ralph Nader, has published a draft of a letter to >>be sent to the Justice Department regarding alternatives to Microsoft OSes. >>The letter shows a heavy bias toward Linux and makes some incorrect >>statements about FreeBSD. We should send feedback urging them to be less >>Linux-centric, mention the other *BSDs, correct the information on FreeBSD, >>and include commercial OSes (such as BSDI, QNX, BeOS, etc.) as well as just >>the free ones as alternatives to Microsoft's products. The draft can be >>found at >> >>http://www.essential.org/antitrust/ms/jkjun151998.html > >I couldn't see any factual errors regarding FreeBSD, nor could I see a bias >towards Linux. Maybe it has been updated already? > >-- > [ Alastair Rankine ] [ mailto:alastair@cia.com.au ] > [ http://www.cia.com.au/alastair ] > [ pgp5 64E4 B67C D2B7 EEC4 63C9 AA74 F63A 9AD9 E44B 21C7 ] > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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