From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Dec 1 4:40:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AB5637B400; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 04:40:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA45367; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:40:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:40:29 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Message-ID: <20001201074029.A45298@blackhelicopters.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001129121021.049b31b0@localhost> <200011300548.WAA05850@usr08.primenet.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20001130170310.049eb740@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001130170310.049eb740@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:10:40PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:10:40PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > >Only if you link against it. When was the last time you > >linked against "grep"? > In this case, it's infectious in a different way: It is > eliminating truly free alternatives. Use it, and you are > facilitating another prong of the GPL agenda: to snuff > out other options. The fact that FreeBSD does not provide > a non-GPLed grep which is BSD-licensed means that the FSF > has succeeded. /usr/ports/text/freegrep Not up to speed yet, but I bet the author would love patches. -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message