From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 23 10:33:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23818 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:33:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (daemon@smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23798; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:33:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06188; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:32:44 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd006121; Thu Jul 23 10:32:36 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA25434; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 10:32:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199807231732.KAA25434@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Free software and politics (Forwarded from lucio@proxima.alt.za) To: wjv@cityip.co.za (Johann Visagie) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 17:32:27 +0000 (GMT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980723164312.C21310@cityip.co.za> from "Johann Visagie" at Jul 23, 98 04:43:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The posting has resulted in a fairly lively thread, including the predictable > flames (including one from a Microsoft employee) about "free" software having > a higher cost of ownership, no support, no continuity, etc. etc. I would actually be interested in reading this -- is it archived on the net somewhere (via hypermail or whatever)? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message