From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 4 11:25:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6193637B403 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 11:25:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA25436; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 12:25:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010704121813.04485a90@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 12:25:21 -0600 To: James Howard , Michael Lucas From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Licensing Philosophy Cc: cheney@soc.umass.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <20010703200612.A87317@blackhelicopters.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:27 AM 7/4/2001, James Howard wrote: >I'll play your game, you rogue... > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2591507,00.html Interesting. I was making exactly the same arguments in the SV.COM forum, and again in a conversation with a GPL advocate this morning. The point BSD needs to stress -- and it's the perfect moment for it -- is that the Microsoft/GPL dilemma presents consumers and developers with a lose/lose situation. If either Microsoft or the FSF succeeds in its agenda, consumers will be deprived of choice and small, inventive developers will be deprived of any chance to be rewarded for advancing the state of the art. We need to be united in this. It is disheartening to see some people in this forum advocating the GPL when in fact the FSF is just the OTHER corporation, with a vast hoard of software, striving for total dominance via predatory practices and media spin. We should point out that both have designs on total domination of the world of software and that neither has our best interests at heart. Finally, we should demonstrate that the BSD license and philosophy are the way between the horns of this dilemma. Consumers will embrace BSD when they see that these things are the only way in which consumers can truly win. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message