Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 21:18:49 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: FreeBSD advocacy list <FreeBSD-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley License Message-ID: <199805030318.VAA15026@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <19980503115141.I3202@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199805030025.SAA13484@lariat.lariat.org> <199805030025.SAA13484@lariat.lariat.org>
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I'm not mentioning FreeBSD explicitly in my messages, but I *am* advocating the Berkeley-style license. The angry zealots who respond to me, however, are trashing FreeBSD and the *BSDs in general. I agree that one can rarely "win" these arguments, but one can raise the awareness level of the lurkers (of which there are many) that there's an alternative point of view. That's where the benefit comes in. --Brett P.S. -- I'm cross-posting this one reply to both lists, but further discussion probably shouldn't be. At 11:51 AM 5/3/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >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-advocacy" in the body of the message
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