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Date:      Thu, 9 Apr 1998 14:04:11 -0700
From:      "David Shanes" <dshanes@personalogic.com>
To:        <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet"
Message-ID:  <025301bd63fb$0b94bc80$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>

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Here is Tim O'Reilly's response.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim O'Reilly <tim@ora.com>
To: David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com>
Cc: tim@oreilly.com <tim@oreilly.com>
Date: Thursday, April 09, 1998 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet"


>The basic reason I didn't invite someone from FreeBSD was that
>the group was getting too large; moreover, I don't really know
>Jordan, where I do know the other folks.  Still, it was probably
>an oversight.
>
>I certainly focussed on the major contributions of the BSD
>team to the whole movement.  I did invite Kirk McKusick, but
>he was out of town.  (We had lunch the week before the
>meeting to make sure I had his perspective.)  While I
>know that Kirk is no longer actively involved, he has
>a perspective on the contributions of Berkeley UNIX and
>where it is going.  
>
>We plan to have followup meetings.  I would definitely like
>to have someone from FreeBSD come to the meeting.
>
>BTW, the main focus was on internet software, not on 
>operating systems.  Basically, I was trying to counter
>the idea that the important free software is on the desktop.
>In fact, most of the Internet was built by the free software
>movement.  But not by people who think of themselves
>particularly as "free software" advocates.
>
>
>-- 
>Tim O'Reilly @ O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.  
>101 Morris Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472   
>707-829-0515 ext 266, Fax 707-829-0104, tim@oreilly.com 
>http://www.oreilly.com http://software.oreilly.com http://www.songline.com


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