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Date:      Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:01:14 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: What Linus said about FreeBSD
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On Tue 2000-02-08 (18:28), Brett Glass wrote:
> No, that was a different discussion. However, the GPL very much DOES
> deserve to be "put down." It's a malicious scam designed to hurt
> programmers' livelihoods and sabotage businesses. An important positive
> selling point for BSD UNIX is that it is not licensed under the GPL.

I propose we have two Bretts then.  The anti-GPL one who we can
flame for causing bad PR amongst the Linux (and other) people, and
the pro-BSD one who we can agree with, and who can provide us with
some good ideas and tactics to improve our PR through positive
means, not through negative (ie, attacking others) means.

Chainsaw, anyone?

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za


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