Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 11:51:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley License Message-ID: <19980503115141.I3202@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199805030025.SAA13484@lariat.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Sat, May 02, 1998 at 06:25:47PM -0600 References: <199805030025.SAA13484@lariat.lariat.org>
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On Sat, 2 May 1998 at 18:25:47 -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > As usual, a group of GPL zealots have gotten loose in an InfoWorld forum, > claiming that RMS is nothing less than a saint and that the GPL is The One > True Way. They're also trashing FreeBSD and the Berkeley-style license > quite a bit. Some folks from this list might care to join in.... In fact, I > think they should, as previous discussions on the InfoWorld forums have > raised FreeBSD's profile. The URL for the discussion is > > http://forums.infoworld.com/threads/get.cgi?53767 > > You can read the messages without registering, but need to fill out a short > registration form to post. (From what I can tell, you don't have to give > much -- or accurate -- information on the form.) Copying (and following-up to) advocacy. This seems a better forum. Well, speech is free, but I don't think you'll get much satisfaction fighting a bunch of people who see things differently. Having said that, of course, I'd have a hard time suggesting that you stop :-) I don't think that it's a good idea to get FreeBSD's name too involved in this kind of discussion, though. It'll just give the zealots more ammunition. (I don't know if you *do* mention FreeBSD--I haven't had time to read all the messages. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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