From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Mar 12 11:50:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BF1015337 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:50:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA23392; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:49:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd023344; Fri Mar 12 12:49:45 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA23933; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:49:40 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199903121949.MAA23933@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Treading on toes (was: O'Reilly article: Whence the Source: Untangling the Open Source/Free Software Debate) To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:49:40 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, dwilde1@thuntek.net, wes@softweyr.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990312124152.Y490@lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Mar 12, 99 12:41:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I didn't say that I wanted to be the spokesman -- just a coordinator > > and/or an active member/leader of one or more of the teams. I'd be glad > > to push toward the podium some spokesman other than me who seem to be > > able to turn away wrath more effectively. > > I think that there are enough people who are saying "Brett, stop > talking and do something" to make this a necessity. But remember that > word "team". You'd have to accept the fact that the goals of the team > wouldn't be your own personal goals (for example, I think that > attacking the GPL right now would be a Bad Thing). Can a person be both a Californian and an American at the same time? How about both a Catholic and an Italian? Most people have more than one thing in which they believe, and we should respect their right to hold those beliefs, even if an external observer sees conflicting loyalties or contradictions in their holding more than one view simultaneously. 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-advocacy" in the body of the message