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Date:      Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:43:25 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anti-BSD FUD
Message-ID:  <20000607094325.Y17973@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000607091917.04a7d840@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:20:45AM -0600
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* Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> [000607 08:22] wrote:
> At 08:48 AM 6/7/2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> 
> >Quite.  He was quite clearly talking about the license and not to the
> >software, so to open by attacking the article as "anti-BSD FUD" will
> >not really encourage people to read your response further.
> 
> It *is* anti-BSD FUD. Note the headline -- "Fatal Flaw in BSD?" --
> as well as the many assertions that BSD's licensing (and, by
> extension, BSD itself) is naive.

Yes I agree, it's a clear anti-BSD article with just enough
patronizing BSD propoganda to get it published.  Had the code been
GPL'd MS would have made thier own version along with it's proprietary
poison.

-Alfred


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