From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Jun 18 15:16:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B972737B406 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:16:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA3335; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:22:40 -0700 Message-ID: <3B2E7DB7.C0BF8429@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:16:23 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft and FreeBSD, as reported in the Wall Street Journal References: <000001c0f812$d97e3280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20010619000407.A3601@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > The fact that he *does* begin his article speaking about Open Source > in general though, is important. No, he does not explicitly mention > BSD. Nowhere in his article, the word BSD can be found. However, > bashing Open Source in general (even if after a while, it turns out to > a GPL bashing contest), does harm to all Open Source projects, in my > humble opinion. This is very important to note, and I'm glad you made the effort to clarify it. Microsoft is using smoke-and-mirrors and classic FUD to discredit all of open source, including the BSD license and all software under it. They took a part of open source and labelled it as the whole. The public won't know the difference, but Microsoft sure did. I'm already seeing rumblings of Microsoft's next attack, which will utilize a divide-and-conquer strategy. Pit the various OSS advocates against each other. This is very easy to imagine. Have Microsoft come out with a clarification of their OSS stance, praising the BSD license while at the same time condeming the GPL. If you think the rift is bad now, wait until Bill Gates publicly chooses sides. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message