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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:07:32 -0400
From:      "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
To:        Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>, Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net>
Cc:        jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: branding
Message-ID:  <19980730150732.B16709@snark.thyrsus.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980730185312.28151.qmail@hyperreal.org>; from Brian Behlendorf on Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 11:43:02AM -0700
References:  <19980730065206.11785.qmail@hyperreal.org> <35BFEBEF.82BA6DC6@ibm.net> <35BF334C.5D5F40BD@ibm.net> <19980729104951.A14984@snark.thyrsus.com> <35BFEBEF.82BA6DC6@ibm.net> <19980730000430.E15941@snark.thyrsus.com> <19980730065206.11785.qmail@hyperreal.org> <19980730044544.A16278@snark.thyrsus.com> <19980730185312.28151.qmail@hyperreal.org>

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Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>:
>                                                  We need to show that
> *use* of the software is commercially a smart thing, not just the *sale* of
> such software.

Have you actually read the Open Source pages?  I spend more energy on
this point than I do on the open-source-for-sale stuff.  The peer
review and reliability argument I keep making is not aimed primarily
at vendors; it's intended to persuade *users* that thet should be
demanding open source.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism
is its adherents.
	-- George Orwell 

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