Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 16:48:10 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson <noslenj@swbell.net> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: greyheart@fnmail.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Bull (Was: Re: Open Source isolated...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911211625590.1600-100000@acp.swbell.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991121105858.0479a450@localhost>
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[snip] ... >>Now is the time for FreeBSD to start thinking >>of change, because the world is changing. All the pieces are in the >>right place RIGHT NOW, for you to become widely known. Use them, or >>die. > >The open threat in the above paragraph -- not exactly the "love and >flowers" attitude you claimed earlier in your message -- betrays >the true attitude behind the GPL and the FSF. Has anyone considered that now might be the time to stop associating ourselves with the open source "movement" -- or any movement, for that matter, and simply present ourselves as a viable peer of the commercial operating systems? Presenting ourselves as the production refinement of the research that finished in the 80's at Berkley seems a much better (and salable) spin than presenting ourselves as 'more open' than Linux or squabbling over licensing and the desktop. -- Jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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