From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 28 12:11:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478EE1600C for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:11:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA23571; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:11:30 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000128130927.046ee770@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:10:15 -0700 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Excellent Gartner Group report: Debunking Open Source Myths In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alas, it's factually incorrect on several points. In particular, it credits Stallman with originating the idea of open source software "in 1984." --Brett At 08:56 AM 1/28/2000 , Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > >This is *just* the thing to drop in your boss' mailbox if you're >having trouble convincing him that Open Source is just as viable as >commercial software. > >DES >-- >Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message