From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 22 08:07:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA17126 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:07:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp1000.lariat.org@[206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA17121 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 08:07:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA04257; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:07:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199807221507.JAA04257@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:07:26 -0600 To: Wes Peters , gsutter@pobox.com (Gregory Sutter) From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199807220608.AAA00964@obie.softweyr.com> References: <19980721184615.A15764@notabene.zer0.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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