From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 10 22:03:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA10950 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 22:03:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA10944 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 22:03:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA09494; Sun, 10 May 1998 22:02:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Benjamin Lewis cc: Amancio Hasty , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Letter to DOJ and State Attorney In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 May 1998 22:52:57 CDT." <199805110352.WAA29948@home.bhl> Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 22:02:14 -0700 Message-ID: <9490.894862934@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Although FreeBSD users like ourselves might like to see FreeBSD being > advocated by the Justice Department, the DOJ is (supposed to be) about > protecting all citizens and not promoting one organization at the expense of > another. The advocacy would make the letter seem be from a man who wants the Probably even more importantly though, a letter which slams Microsoft and then goes on to directly suggest a competing alternative is likely to be far less effective than one which attempts to pit cause against cause. You don't want to be making this a FreeBSD vs Microsoft fight since we're clearly too small for that right now. You want to be making this a "Free software" vs Microsoft fight or, on an even larger battlefield, an "American* software industry's larger interests vs Microsoft" fight if you're trying to get the maximum amount of political weight behind you. - Jordan * I know it's actually a "world software industry interests vs Microsoft" issue, but if you're writing to the American justice dept. you have to kind of keep in mind their primary area of interest. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message