Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 21:21:31 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com, Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a public relations opportunity for BSD Message-ID: <p05210624bae9e847752d@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20030515025309.GA28371@mooseriver.com> References: <3EC2FB53.67559AB6@bellatlantic.net> <20030515025309.GA28371@mooseriver.com>
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At 9:53 PM -0500 5/14/03, Josef Grosch wrote: >On Wed, May 14, 2003, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > Hi, >> >> If you haven't heard yet, SCO has sent a letter to about 1500 > > companies claiming that Linux infringes on SCO's intellectual > > property. I won't comment on whether this claim is true (there > > are enough comments on slashdot). But for BSD it's... > > >I think we need to stay as far away from this self inflicted >fiasco as possible. I agree completely. For one, you can't "Not comment on whether the charges are true", and then turn around and try to advertise your product based on the very same charges. It is particularly bad to do when talking about such a desperate brain-dead set of charges as these are. It is even worse when our own project went through the frustration and irritation of similar lawsuits, and now we are going to clap gleefully that another stupid lawsuit is trying to undermine a different open-source project? If we can't sell freebsd based on freebsd's code and freebsd's features, then we deserve to have absolutely no users. While FreeBSD could use more of a marketing department, we should never encourage a "marketing-through-FUD department". I think we need to avoid doing *anything* which could even *remotely* suggest that we are trying to cash in on this lawsuit in any way. [speaking only for me, IMHO, etc, etc...] -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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