Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 05:12:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: brett@lariat.org, pechter@shell.monmouth.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction Message-ID: <199807220512.WAA05092@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19980722093121.E8098@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Jul 22, 98 09:31:21 am
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> >> Brett -- I also disagree with the Free Software Foundation's philosophy. > >> However, I think it's a reasonable place for the funding to go. > > > > I disagree. The Free Software Foundation's main objective nowadays is to > > promote the notion that the GPL is the One True Way. > > That may be. But do you intend to stop using GNU software because of > that? If not, I think it's fair to support the people who supply it. I'd actually be very happy to switch over to TenDRA. Barring that, which no one will ever agree to, because it would actually involve work... I'd be happy to see the money go to Cygnus to pay them to support FreeBSD in binutils, and other places where FreeBSD support is lacking. FSF is not the only source of GNU software, and it's not the only source of Open Source software. How do I know that FSF won't spend the money on HURD? Or spend the money on other things, and use the money they would have spent on those other things themselves, on HURD? Why do I want to support an institution that wants to fragment the Open Source community with yet-another-OS because of NIH? Frankly, I'd prefer subsidizing commercial ports to Linux (which could at least run under emulation). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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