From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 20 7:48:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35FD737B422 for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 07:48:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@markemmanuel.org) Received: from [147.126.50.163] (unknown [147.126.50.163]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 938C95F0F for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 09:48:21 -0500 (CDT) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 09:48:30 -0500 Subject: Re: [dn-core] Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together" From: markemmanuel To: FreeBSD advocacy Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20010519092859.F7708@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There has been a history of people supporting the GPL style of licensing publicly attacking BSD supporters and the license. It makes no sense to argue which is better or which isn't. It's such an individualistic choice by a company or a person. One isn't better than the other. I mean geez... BSD uses a boatload of GPL'd tools. Personally, I like the BSD license because it doesn't force me to do anything. If I ever decided to code for anything GPL'd, it kinda makes me feel like I'm doing time for using the software. Then again, it is ultimately your decision to contribute or not. If you don't like BSD, don't use it. If you don't like GPL'd don't use it. Honestly, the people that tend to argue the BSD vs. GPL case on either side often are doo doo heads with nothing better to do. To understand what I mean just check out any thread on slashdot, linuxtoday or even on these mailing lists. Okay, I'm done ranting now. Have a nice day! :) markemmanuel Quoted from the Book of Greg Lehey Ch 6:7-13 on 5/18/01 6:58 PM: > There's a history of BSD people publically putting down the GPL > license, and then something like this "Free Software Leaders Stand > Together" comes along and they make no effort to publically reach out > to the BSD people. When they attempt to make up for it, some BSD > people get up on their hind legs and doubt their motives. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message