From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 7 12:31:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from intra.daemontech.net (intra.daemontech.net [208.138.46.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8757B37B530 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 12:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole@unixgirl.com) Received: (qmail 2674 invoked by uid 200); 7 Jun 2000 19:31:28 -0000 Received: from xwin.nmhtech.com (208.138.46.10) by intra.daemontech.net with SMTP; 7 Jun 2000 19:31:28 -0000 Content-Length: 1557 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000607094325.Y17973@fw.wintelcom.net> Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 12:31:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "Nicole Harrington." To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: Anti-BSD FUD Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "G. Adam Stanislav" , Rahul Siddharthan , Brett Glass Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 07-Jun-00 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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 > In a way it is rather nice. They must be afraid of something to go through all the trouble. I would plan for more FUD from the marketing machines of many companies as BSD grows in popularity, strength and power! Nicole nicole@unixgirl.com |\ __ /| (`\ http://www.unixgirl.com/ webmistress@dangermouse.org | o_o |__ ) ) http://www.dangermouse.org/ // \\ ---------------------------(((---(((----------------------------------------- -- Powered by Coka-Cola and FreeBSD -- -- Strong enough for a man - But made for a Woman -- -- OWNED? MS: Who's Been In/Virused Your Computer Today? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message