From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 7 9:44:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B04937BD7A for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:44:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e57GhPS05640; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 09:43:25 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brett Glass Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anti-BSD FUD Message-ID: <20000607094325.Y17973@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <3.0.6.32.20000607093152.008b4910@mail85.pair.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000606184736.04b0f2f0@localhost> <3.0.6.32.20000607093152.008b4910@mail85.pair.com> <20000607201827.A2465@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <4.3.2.7.2.20000607091917.04a7d840@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000607091917.04a7d840@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:20:45AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Brett Glass [000607 08:22] wrote: > At 08:48 AM 6/7/2000, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > >Quite. He was quite clearly talking about the license and not to the > >software, so to open by attacking the article as "anti-BSD FUD" will > >not really encourage people to read your response further. > > It *is* anti-BSD FUD. Note the headline -- "Fatal Flaw in BSD?" -- > as well as the many assertions that BSD's licensing (and, by > extension, BSD itself) is naive. Yes I agree, it's a clear anti-BSD article with just enough patronizing BSD propoganda to get it published. Had the code been GPL'd MS would have made thier own version along with it's proprietary poison. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message