Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 15:12:50 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction Message-ID: <19980722151250.G15764@notabene.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <199807221507.JAA04257@lariat.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 09:07:26AM -0600 References: <19980721184615.A15764@notabene.zer0.org> <199807220608.AAA00964@obie.softweyr.com> <199807221507.JAA04257@lariat.lariat.org>
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On Wed, Jul 22, 1998 at 09:07:26AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. > >Gregory S. Sutter recently uttered: > >> I disagree with you. The FSF doesn't oppose Open Source software > >> any more than Linux opposes FreeBSD. I think you missed my analogy. Linux doesn't oppose BSD, it just uses a different and incompatible licensing scheme. The GPL isn't opposing the BSD License, it just is a different and incompatible licensing scheme. However immediately incompatible the two schemes are, they both support open source software. The GPL (and the FSF) support a subset of open source: totally free software. To get this discussion back to where it started, giving money to the FSF is giving money for free software. Is that bad? It is doubtful that RMS is going to convince a knowledgeable person to release under the GPL instead of a BSD-style license with any amount of money. If someone supports RMS's ideas about freedom of information, then they'll release GPLed software; if not, they'll release under a different license. Either way, if the source code is available, the goal has been reached. Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:gsutter@pobox.com "You uudecode it." http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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