From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 20 07:19:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0CF716A401 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:19:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beranger5ca@yahoo.ca) Received: from web57708.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web57708.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 556E013C480 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:19:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beranger5ca@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 68983 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Apr 2007 07:19:25 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=Fqpw+vh3hXlXMjeZSrnw+cw5reHwTjl+6CvFCRACmuKT/N3oEIsCRtewLquMfC3VKCO1R3oelKinbjI+kosO48rJbrrh6MWewmXi6vyNe0s3EudyJ8TXgP1+IUerTVnoOMsQSNgE2y72skK/85LPAYkbdIBWTJoQdA4MeEIIuZQ=; X-YMail-OSG: dz9zIZAVM1nQQAae13xBEPSV9ikNx18A.L_4ptaXilmMSrbK.RFToNBxckyQ0L0v8Ax.ffEIbN0LJL0Z275M9ZWiErsEUBOI_vxNeFBlDDTy6t6evgsLrnfIRQ_lLA-- Received: from [193.201.44.15] by web57708.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:19:25 EDT Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 03:19:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Radu-Cristian FOTESCU To: Tom Rhodes In-Reply-To: <20070419223144.7c41d668.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <833273.68226.qm@web57708.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The sorry state of open source today X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 07:19:26 -0000 --- Tom Rhodes wrote: > > have expected a mix of positive and negative reactions. Absolutely. But I have never said a word on the "control" -- what's this obsession on the control?! Are you so unhappy about NetBSD being _controlled_ by TNF, that you really, really must to assert your independence?! It was only about the legal issues. While a developer or the abstract entity that is the Project may not be liable (or rather they are liable, but can't be reliably sued if the developers are outside the U.S.), I am afraid the Foundation is still an American subject, and all the possible attacks on the Project will be directed to the Foundation, from the legal standpoint. You can't imagine how many injurious comments from Linux fanboys I had to delete, for just using about *BSD some words I can't reproduce here. This is sad. I feel like I was seen as an "enemy", or as someone who said that the Project is "captive and controlled". I am not your enemy, I never was, and -- while I agree I could not afford to allocate more space for *BSD, hence what I wrote about FreeBSD is highly condensed -- I know what I have wrote not. Thanks, R-C Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca