Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:07:26 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, gsutter@pobox.com (Gregory Sutter) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction Message-ID: <199807221507.JAA04257@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <199807220608.AAA00964@obie.softweyr.com> References: <19980721184615.A15764@notabene.zer0.org>
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For one of Stallman's MILDER diatribes against Open Source, see http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html He, and others from the FSF, attack it (and *BSD) much more bluntly during speaking engagements. --Brett At 12:08 AM 7/22/98 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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