Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 22:31:51 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction Message-ID: <19980721223151.B15764@notabene.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <19980722000542.56979@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 12:05:42AM -0500 References: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980721182647.24542A-100000@shell> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980722005832.2295A-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> <19980722000542.56979@futuresouth.com>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 12:05:42AM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 12:59:53AM -0400, Adrian Filipi-Martin woke me up to tell me: > > > > > > I'd like to see the X enviroment to be further developed so I'm biased > > > towards helping out those who write software for X. :) > > > > I second this! The XFree86 folks are as OS neutral a free-source > > project as there ever will be. And it is one group which everyone is well > > put to support. > > Third. To a vote. All in favor, say 'Aye'. All opposed, shaddup and go > back to your cons25 :p. I still think that the FSF is a good place for the donations to go, but The XFree86 Project is an excellent choice as well. They might need the money more lately because they're doing independent development due to the Open Group's decision. I know this will just stir up trouble in the thread, but... if X11 was free software instead of just open source, TOG couldn't have changed the license to a semicommercial one. Of course, if free in this case was GPL, X11 couldn't have been packaged with any commerical Unix. There are tradeoffs to each type of license... and I'm still not convinced which is best. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:gsutter@pobox.com "You uudecode it." http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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