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Date:      Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:32:52 +0200
From:      Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Effects of the GPL
Message-ID:  <19990208163252.C96974@shale.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990208044608.00c8a9f0@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 04:54:17AM -0700
References:  <36BE3DEC.433E8A2E@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <199902071900.LAA09317@kithrup.com> <36BE1B25.653A5341@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19990207162848.L27505@orcrist.mediacity.com> <36BE3DEC.433E8A2E@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19990208013607.F27505@orcrist.mediacity.com> <4.1.19990208044608.00c8a9f0@mail.lariat.org>

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Hi,

On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 04:54:17AM -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> Paul Vixie was going to present a talk on this issue at LinuxWorld,
> but recently cancelled, alas. I was going to fill in, but discovered
> that the session had been scheduled directly opposite one by Nick
> Petreley -- Editorial Director of the online LinuxWorld magazine
> and a key cheerleader for the GPL. I therefore opted out; wrong
> forum, bad time slot. But I would welcome contributions to an
> online presentation about the subject. I'd like to call it "The
> Fortress, the Cathedral, and the Bazaar." Microsoft, of course,
> would be the Fortress; the theology-motivated FSF (with Linux and 
> the GPL) the Cathedral; and the commercial software world and the 
> BSD movement the Bazaar.

(Using Eric Raymond's terms)  It's interesting to note that the
Cathedral has no god while the Bazaar seems to have a shrine on every
corner...  RMS, Linus, ESR, Alan Cox, etc, etc.

 -Jeremy

-- 
  |   "I could be anything I wanted to, but one things true
--+--  Never gonna be as big as Jesus, never gonna hold the world in my hand
  |    Never gonna be as big as Jesus, never gonna build a promised land
  |    But that's, that's all right, OK with me..." -Audio Adrenaline

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