From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 21 23:09:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14713 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:09:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14703 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@obie.softweyr.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA00964; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:08:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes) From: Wes Peters Message-Id: <199807220608.AAA00964@obie.softweyr.com> Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction In-Reply-To: <19980721184615.A15764@notabene.zer0.org> from Gregory Sutter at "Jul 21, 98 06:46:15 pm" To: gsutter@pobox.com (Gregory Sutter) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:08:59 -0600 (MDT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gregory S. Sutter recently uttered: > I disagree with you. The FSF doesn't oppose Open Source software > any more than Linux opposes FreeBSD. You OBVIOUSLY haven't read anything written by RMS, including most of the political diatributes included with every piece of FSF code you get. I use, and appreciate, Emacs, GCC, GDB, etc., just as much as the next guy, but Stallman's rantings about software hoarding are just so much communist drivel. I contribute, and often convince my employers to contribute, directly to the creators of software like GCC, GDB, etc., and no longer contribute to the FSF directly, because I do not support their political agenda or their attacks on software distributed under Berkeley-style copyrights. Stallman has written at length in public on the evils of the copyright and licensing scheme used by sendmail, BIND, etc., which are virutally identical to the copyright and license under which FreeBSD is distributed. If you give O'Reilly $10 to give to the FSF, you are paying RMS and his political hacks to attack the FreeBSD license model on any front they can. Brett hit this one on the nose: demand the right to direct where your entry fee will go, or don't attend. Tell your Linux friends, too. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message