From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 12 15:22: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (usr.srcsys.org [209.42.222.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E488537B405 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:21:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 20415 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Jun 2001 22:18:43 -0000 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:18:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joseph A. Mallett" X-X-Sender: To: Brett Glass Cc: Subject: Re: Evan Leibovitch on BSD In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010612123127.045a6690@localhost> Message-ID: 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 Bretty, I disagree. There IS no point. If he believes a word of what he wrote he's in bigger trouble than anyone could turn back around. Welcome to GNU/FUD 1.0. There really are better places you can target youyr energies than by feeding these trolls. Hell, it's _ZDnet_ what do you expect. On a related note, did you ever get any financial records for FSF? I tried a few times with nicely-worded emails to no avail. In fact, any questions I sent them were promptly ignored. -- [ Joseph Mallett ] [ http://srcsys.org ] [ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ] [ FreeBSD, NetBSD, & xMach User; (Obj)C(++) Coder ] [ http://xMach.org ] -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d-- s+:++ a--- C+++ UB++++ P+++ L- E---- W++ N+ o-- K- w++ O M+ V PS+ PE- Y+ PGP++ t++ 5-- X+ R tv- b++ DI+ D--- G e* h! r% z+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > The article at > > http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2772296,00.html > > subtly suggests that there must be something wrong with BSD's philosophy > or licensing because GPLed software (in particular, Linux, KDE, etc.) is > the focus of more and more prominent startups. (Needless to say, as > someone who has a strong vested interest in Linux, he's not exactly > unbiased.) It's probably worth setting him straight in in the TalkBack. > > --Brett > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message