From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 24 16:31:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDDB41528C for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:31:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA01928; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:15:36 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAGgaqQd; Mon Jan 24 17:15:27 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA13480; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 17:15:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200001250015.RAA13480@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: UCITA (Important) To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 00:15:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), chat@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-chat) In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000123230049.00d51100@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Jan 23, 2000 11:02:02 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Why mention some restrictive licenses (e.g. the Microsoft EULAs) > > > and not others (e.g. the GPL)? > > > >Because you need to keep your audience's attention. Perpetual > >GNU-bashing will just have a large number of people saying "Oh, > >Brett's turning this into an anti-GPL diatribe again", and stop > >reading. > > Opposing restrictive licenses -- whether they're the Microsoft > EULA or the GPL -- isn't "bashing" or a "diatribe." It's > good sense. This really depends on whether you primary intent is to discuss UCITA, or whether it's to discuss license issues. Combining both into a single discussion muddies the already muddy water you are trying to filter clear. The moral to this sotry is that you should pick one topic, and all other topics must be subservient to your message about that one topic, or you should throw them out of the list of things under discussion. Of course, you may not want to make a strong point about UCITA... if that's the case, feel free to drown your signal in noise, but expect to reap the results. 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-chat" in the body of the message