From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 23 23:43:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 648ED37BA12 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 23:43:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 45888 invoked from network); 24 May 2000 06:43:08 -0000 Received: from theory2.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.21) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 24 May 2000 06:43:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 5062 invoked by uid 211); 24 May 2000 06:43:31 -0000 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:13:31 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Arun Sharma Cc: Doug Barton , Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Message-ID: <20000524121330.C5033@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <4.3.1.2.20000523191700.049c5260@localhost> <20000524101006.A29351@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <20000523224731.A16545@sharmas.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000523224731.A16545@sharmas.dhs.org>; from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 10:47:31PM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.5-15 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Arun Sharma said on May 23, 2000 at 22:47:31: > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 10:10:06AM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > BTW, Mr Leibovitch makes the mistake of equating open source with GPL > in his reference to Pedro's Daemonnews article. Slashdot gets away > with it repeatedly. Does anyone have good suggestions to make the > distinction clear to the masses ? Web page button ? gplisnotopensource.org ? This is part of the general problem that BSD has too low a profile and the leading lights are traditionally not very vocal about their software. But this seems to be changing now. More power to the advocacy team... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message