Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 17:09:57 -0500 From: Bob Martin <bob@buckhorn.net> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZDNet columnist bashes Apple for using BSD Message-ID: <3AF085B5.4CED129F@buckhorn.net> References: <200105022027.OAA27329@lariat.org> <3AF07D8C.E2A69474@acuson.com>
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David Johnson wrote: > > > All of the columnists at ZDNet are a shill for someone or another. Most > of them are shills for Microsoft. Evan is a shill for GNU. > > If Evan thinks Apple is evil for not re-writing the wheel, then he > doesn't know the first thing about Free Software. Of course, I also > think a lot of people in the FSF don't know the first thing about Free > Software either, but that's another story. > > Unless you are an incredibly shallow person, your freedom is completely > unaffected by the licensing of the software you use. If you disagree > with the amount of *utility* a license permits, then simply don't use > that software. Don't go around determining how much utility other people > need from their software. And don't go around proclaiming this software > holy and that software diabolical based on its licensing. > You really should post this to the comments section on the site, or at least the 3rd paragraph. This is quite eloquently said. -- Bob Martin, CTO InterNet Unlimited http://www.inu.net mailto:bob@inu.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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