Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 18:04:01 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: O'Reilly still supporting FSF exclusively Message-ID: <199807270004.SAA10226@lariat.lariat.org>
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As of today, O'Reilly's Web page at http://opensource.oreilly.com/townmeet.html still says that all attendees at the company's "Open Source Town Hall" will be required to donate $10 to the Free Software Foundation, an organization that disparages all open source software efforts other than those which support its specific philosophy and restrictive licensing terms. Some "Town Hall!" If O'Reilly is not responsive, it may be time for us to -- however reluctantly -- engage in some appropriate form of protest -- perhaps buttons, literature, or refusal to pay the $10 "donation" at the event. While I know that Jordan has always been conciliatory toward the Linux camp as a whole, I think it's important that he speak out strongly against forced support of a group that openly disparages the methodologies of other open source development teams, including Apache, XFree86, and others. Perhaps we can hand out 2.2.6 disks (which will now be obsolete) with an appropriate message attached, indicating that the GPL is NOT the only way and that this is an example of what can be done under a less restrictive license. Walnut Creek people: What does WC CD-ROM do with its obsolete disks? I can't think of a better use. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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