Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 12:59:09 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, James Howard <howardjp@Glue.umd.edu> Cc: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>, Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Jonathan Slivko <js43064n@pace.edu>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Opposing" the "competition" (was: FreeBSD spokesman (was: So what happens to FreeBSD now?)) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705125524.04502690@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010705124136.N371@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107031644410.16320-100000@z.glue.umd.edu> <20010703134058.A9446@mooseriver.com> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107031644410.16320-100000@z.glue.umd.edu>
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At 11:41 AM 7/5/2001, Greg Lehey wrote: >Note that Jordan Hubbard would fail this test too. While I agree with Jordan about many things, I have long taken issue with acquiescence to the GPL. I feel that this acquiescence is one of the reasons that the BSDs have failed to achieve the recognition that they deserve. >Guys, when will you learn that times change? GNU isn't our >competition, it's part of our cultural space. Absolutely incorrect. The GPL is an attempt to TURN freely redistributable, peer-reviewed code -- such as the BSDs -- into a weapon against the interests of commercial programmers and programmers' livelihoods in general. It is not a proper part of the BSDs' "cultural space" (as you put it) but rather an invasion of that space. Advocacy of BSD demands that this be pointed out. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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