From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Sep 15 4: 9:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br (gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br [200.248.148.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1478937B423 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 04:09:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (casantos@localhost) by gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA03309; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:12:04 GMT (envelope-from casantos@cpmet.ufpel.tche.br) X-Authentication-Warning: gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br: casantos owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:12:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Carlos A M dos Santos To: Mike Doyle Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Articles on the "Open Source" concept In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000915115451.00820210@199.107.2.1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You shoult take a look at "The Ethics of Free Software" for a less rosy point of view: http://www.sdmagazine.com/features/2000/03/f4.shtml On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Mike Doyle wrote: > Hi All > > The accountant in my company has just noticed that I deployed another > application on our FreeBSD server. (A web-based group calendar from > SourceForge). > > He seems to be amazed that I got this "free", and wants to know more about > open source. The only articles I have bookmarked are the ESR writings. I know > there are other contrasting and opposing views out there. > > Has anyone got any handy URLs for the ethos behind creating/mantaining > Open Source projects ? > > Thanks a million Dolars? :-) -- Carlos A. M. dos Santos Federal University of Pelotas Meteorological Research Center Av. Ildefonso Simoes Lopes 2791 Pelotas, RS, Brasil, CEP 96060-290 WWW: http://www.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br RENPAC (X.25): 153231641 Phone: +55 53 277-6767 FAX: +55 53 277-6722 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message