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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 17:46:50 -0700
From:      David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>
To:        Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no>
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together"
Message-ID:  <3B0470FA.C16F5F06@acuson.com>
References:  <20010517161636.A28350@totem.fix.no>

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Anders Nordby wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a little dissatisfied with the fact that it seems Bruce Perens
> doesn't seem to want to include any BSD persons on a list of "free
> software leaders". Is he really that much of a zealot, and does he lack
> history knowledge? Or is it just me that got this all wrong? Did he
> actually ask any BSD persons?

Bruce is a very big GPL person, so much so that he quit the OSI because
they promoted openness instead of freedom.

However, the group of people he included is well representative of the
Open Source community. Richard Stallman and Miguel de Icaza are balanced
by Larry Wall and Guido Van Rossum.

David

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