Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:52:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction Message-ID: <199807212052.QAA08270@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199807211939.NAA15713@lariat.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Jul 21, 98 01:39:49 pm
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> > According to the following press release, the $10 admission charge > for O'Reilly's "Open Source Town Meeting" will be donated to > the Free Software Foundation. I believe that this is inappropriate, > as the Free Software Foundation has an anti-business ideology and > supports only one form of "open source" software license -- a form > with which many of us do not agree. > > Those who believe that there should be other approaches to licensing > of open source software should contact the address below and > register their concerns, asking that there be an opportunity to > direct one's admission charges to a different group. (FreeBSD.org > would not be inappropriate, IMHO.) > > --Brett Glass Brett -- I also disagree with the Free Software Foundation's philosophy. However, I think it's a reasonable place for the funding to go. There's a large percentage of the Open Source Software built with Gnu compilers and tools and seeing each group attending this forum wanting a splintered cut of the take would discourage cooperation. I think we can let this opportunity to be difficult slide. Can you imagine the screams if the Linux folks were told a part of the take was going to support the Freebsd or NetBSD project. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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