From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Apr 12 7:14:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50F0C14FA3 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 07:14:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.225]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06460; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:12:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3711FF3C.29BE1CB7@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:12:12 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman takes credit for BSD? References: <19990411131944.E2142@lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > > I think this is a positive message. As you say, more people probably > read the FSF web pages than ours. Stallman is doing *BSD a service by > mentioning us. Agreed. 386bsd would never have been created without the GNU C compiler. Whatever you think of the FSF and Stallman and their politics, their products have been a huge factor in created free software, and their free distribution model has at least shown the world that high-quality software for free isn't a pipe dream. What we really need there are links to BSD web pages. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message