From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Nov 14 13: 2:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C269314C99; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:02:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA20533; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:02:28 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA41212; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:02:27 +0100 (MET) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:02:27 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: "Andreas L. Gustafsson" Cc: wosch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD for "free" Message-ID: <19991114220227.G34741@bitbox.follo.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from ante@Update.UU.SE on Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 11:27:02AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 11:27:02AM +0100, Andreas L. Gustafsson wrote: > I am in no way a part of, or paid by, the Free Software Foundation, but > a independant programmer/user that's deeply concerned about the issues > about freedom and the philosophy of the FSF. As am I. One of the things I am most concerned about is the the FSF has been able to fool people into thinking that GPLed software is free software. It isn't - it is software that has been made unfree in a specific way in order to hurt proprietary software (as opposed to helping free software or open source software - if you want to maximize the amount and quality of open source software, the GPL is almost always the wrong choice). Please don't re-iterate this confusion by referring to the Free Software Foundation as if they were in favour of freedom. Thank you. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message