From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 21 13:53:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09748 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:53:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (shell.monmouth.com [205.231.236.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09717 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:53:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pechter@shell.monmouth.com) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id QAA08270; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:52:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199807212052.QAA08270@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:52:56 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199807211939.NAA15713@lariat.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Jul 21, 98 01:39:49 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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