From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Jun 10 23:55: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7248337BF68 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 23:55:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13621; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:54:59 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <394337DA.6F05BA42@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 00:55:22 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lvereen@cmp.com Cc: awolfe@cmp.com Subject: Revisionism Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mr. Vereen, I am writing you directly because neither the print version nor the on-line version of your magazine, Embedded Systems Programming, includes information on who to contact for errors and omissions. I am writing about Mr. Alexander Wolfe's article, "Alliances Drive Embedded Linux Toward Prime Time" in Vol. 13 no. 6, June 2000. While generally factual and well written, Mr. Wolfe repeats a bit of revisionism that I must ask you to correct. In the article he writes And because Linux is "open source" -- a concept pioneered by the Cambridge, MA Free Software Foundation... This is patently untrue. Both the UNIX /usr/group and the Berkeley Software Distributions existed for many years before the FSF and the Gnu Project were created. Richard M. Stallman did NOT create the concept of open source software, his "innovation" was to use the distribution of open source software to advance his political agenda. Please clarify this situation for your readers. And perhaps while we're at it, Mr. Wolfe can clarify what the vendor of that internet radio is supposed to do when the user upgrades it to kernel 2.4.33 and glibc 6.1.43 and it no longer works? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message