From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 26 11:49:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bytor.rush.net (bytor.rush.net [209.45.245.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A1715087 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:49:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lynch@rush.net) Received: from localhost (lynch@localhost) by bytor.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06645; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:49:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:49:18 -0500 (EST) From: Pat Lynch To: Christopher Masto Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU/FreeBSD? Not by that name In-Reply-To: <19990226103959.A8072@netmonger.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Christopher Masto wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 05:53:08PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > > Unlike the FSF, the Debian group DOES consider the BSD licenses to fall > > within its definition of "free software" > > Brett, we understand that you feel hurt by the FSF and hurting them > back is the only way you can currently deal with your anger, but > please don't make such blatant lies. To quote a page from fsf.org: > And, although I wasn;t going to say anything, hasn;t it occured to Brett that very few people agree with him here? > "There are many different non-copyleft free software licenses, > including the X10 license, the XFree86 license, and the FreeBSD > license, and the BSD (Berkeley System Distribution) license." > > After you get some therapy, you may want to read > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/categories.html where you can find that > even the evil mind-control organization known to you as GNU doesn't > mind non-GPLed software. > > I thought perhaps the FreeBSD community could display a more sensible, > level-headed, moderate image compared to the ranting and raving of the > Linux Fandom. This alone would help our PR. Unfortunately, the > merest suggestion that Linux, GNU, and Richard Stallman are not our > most mortal enemies results in gibbering flames from the like of Brett > Glass. If we can't all get along, can't we all at least just calm down? > Seems to me its only Brett thats got his panties in a bunch over FSF, personally, I'm not a fan of Stallman, or the GPL, but I think it fairly lame that Grett feels he has to lead some kind of one man campaign against them. I mean, don;t you have better things to do with your time Brett? > Linux got some media attention recently, much of which was in the form > of pictures of people carrying banners and picket signs and storming > Microsoft headquarters. In contrast to that, if FreeBSD presents > itself as a community more concerned about functionality and code > correctness than in making public fools of ourselves, we can expect a > positive response from many corporate sectors. > -- which is one of the reasons people like us use it. looking forward to meeting with you to discuss this tonight =) -Pat > Christopher Masto Director of Operations NetMonger Communications > chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net > > Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message