From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Feb 27 4:48:14 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A349B37B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:48:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from hardtime.linuxman.net (hardtime.linuxman.net [66.147.26.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E5F943FB1 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:48:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gh@over-yonder.net) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hardtime.linuxman.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h1RDdwd21646; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:39:59 -0600 Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 1012) id 7817420F04; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 06:48:06 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 06:48:06 -0600 From: "Daniel M. Kurry" To: Peter Wu Cc: Johnson David , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly apologizes for calling BSD "Free Software" Message-ID: <20030227124806.GB17085@over-yonder.net> References: <200302261224.54884.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> <86bs0yne2d.fsf@vanilla.zzz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86bs0yne2d.fsf@vanilla.zzz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wu said something like: > >>>>> "Johnson" == Johnson David writes: > > Johnson> Yes it's true. The Technical Editor of the O'Reilly Network > Johnson> (chromatic@oreilly.com) has apologized for "apparently > Johnson> conflating the BSDs with `Free Software`". See the whole > Johnson> article at . > > Excuse me. But isn't FreeBSD 'Free Software'? Or, I misunderstood the story? Both. The author was apoligizing for grouping the BSDs in with the "free as in frufru" "Free" that the GPL crowd has come up with. As he tells us in the commentary, other software mentioned in the article doesn't fit the frufru "Free" description either and including them in the mention of 'conflating' would have made things clearer. Whatever. dan > -- > Peter Wu > Powered by FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message