Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 19:15:07 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction Message-ID: <199807220115.TAA21772@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <19980722103127.I8098@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199807220054.SAA21379@lariat.lariat.org> <199807212103.PAA17229@lariat.lariat.org> <199807211939.NAA15713@lariat.lariat.org> <199807212052.QAA08270@shell.monmouth.com> <199807212103.PAA17229@lariat.lariat.org> <19980722093121.E8098@freebie.lemis.com> <199807220054.SAA21379@lariat.lariat.org>
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At 10:31 AM 7/22/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >In fact, I've just looked at the FSF web page, and it brought back to >me that I keep confusing the FSF and the GNU project. What I was >talking about is really the GNU project, the people who actually deal >in software, rather than the FSF, which is a political wing rather >akin to Sinn Fein. I've never been too keen on them. They claim that the Free Software Foundation is "a tax-exempt charity that raises funds for work on the GNU Project" -- in short, that the FSF is the GNU Project's fundraising arm. But in fact, the two Web sites http://www.gnu.org and http://www.fsf.org are different in name only. They contain virtually all of the same material. It seems probable that much of the money raised by FSF in fact goes into promoting the GPL over alternatives. >OK, then, who *should* get the donation? If there is no truly neutral group (some say that Eric Raymond's Open Source entity is neutral, but I don't know if it is or not), it should be split among the groups participating. Or attendees should be able to select one. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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