From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun May 10 22:10:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA12189 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 22:10:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA12183 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 22:10:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02406; Sun, 10 May 1998 22:10:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199805110510.WAA02406@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Benjamin Lewis , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Letter to DOJ and State Attorney In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 May 1998 22:02:14 PDT." <9490.894862934@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 22:10:40 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Guys, Guys, I feel like we begin to tick!! The revision letter will be coming out shortly. Tnks! Amancio > > Although FreeBSD users like ourselves might like to see FreeBSD being > > advocated by the Justice Department, the DOJ is (supposed to be) about > > protecting all citizens and not promoting one organization at the expense of > > another. The advocacy would make the letter seem be from a man who wants the > > Probably even more importantly though, a letter which slams Microsoft > and then goes on to directly suggest a competing alternative is likely > to be far less effective than one which attempts to pit cause against > cause. You don't want to be making this a FreeBSD vs Microsoft fight > since we're clearly too small for that right now. You want to be > making this a "Free software" vs Microsoft fight or, on an even larger > battlefield, an "American* software industry's larger interests vs > Microsoft" fight if you're trying to get the maximum amount of > political weight behind you. > > - Jordan > > * I know it's actually a "world software industry interests vs Microsoft" > issue, but if you're writing to the American justice dept. you have to > kind of keep in mind their primary area of interest. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message