From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 24 16:20:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E8A157B0 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:19:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noslenj@swbell.net) Received: from swbell.net ([207.193.26.207]) by mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.09.16.21.57.p8) with ESMTP id <0FOV00BN67GZT8@mta2.rcsntx.swbell.net> for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:17:29 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (noslenj@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by swbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00646; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:54:05 -0600 (CST envelope-from noslenj@swbell.net) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:54:05 -0600 (CST) From: Jay Nelson Subject: Re: UCITA (Important) In-reply-to: <4.2.2.20000123230049.00d51100@localhost> To: Brett Glass Cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-chat Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett, Greg's right. You write well but preach poorly. Please listen to him. We have a far bigger enemy at our gate than the GPL. -- Jay On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Brett Glass wrote: >At 08:25 PM 1/23/2000 , Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > Why mention some restrictive licenses (e.g. the Microsoft EULAs) >> > and not others (e.g. the GPL)? >> >>Because you need to keep your audience's attention. Perpetual >>GNU-bashing will just have a large number of people saying "Oh, >>Brett's turning this into an anti-GPL diatribe again", and stop >>reading. > >Opposing restrictive licenses -- whether they're the Microsoft >EULA or the GPL -- isn't "bashing" or a "diatribe." It's >good sense. > >--Brett > > > >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