From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Feb 20 14:41:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA4A37B491 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:41:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA5E54; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:46:25 -0800 Message-ID: <3A92F1EE.C31EB50@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:38:38 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again References: <200102202203.PAA28567@usr05.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > Stallman, Kazinski, and other people who want to retard progress > are saying that they don't trust people to do the right thing. > You have to have a real dim view of humanity, and be either an > atheist, a theist who doesn't trust their God, or insane. Bingo! The premise of the GPL is that the user is prone to immorality and unreason. The premise of the BSDL is that the user is competent, rational and moral. And this attitude isn't lost on the user. Case in point: Steve Jobs only released the NeXT Objective C front end under the GPL because he was threatened by legal action, but he released Darwin under the APSL and donated lots back to FreeBSD _without_even_being_asked_to! David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message