Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:34:36 -0500 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> Cc: Anthony Chavez <magus@magus.users.xmission.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RWS Message-ID: <39C3D95C.4F5F6343@confusion.net> References: <20000916133833.H12955@magus.users.xmission.com> <20000916153813.H47559@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 01:38:33PM -0600, Anthony Chavez wrote: > > Looks like RWS is going to be in town (Logan, UT) next Tuesday, > > advocating GNU/Linux and autographing. I'm half-tempted to go wearing > > one of my many BSD t-shirts and ask him to autograph my copy of > > McKusick's book. Unfortunately, I don't have the balls. :-) > > RMS, you mean? > > > Anyone got any good ~serious~ questions that I could ask him, or ways to > > advocate BSD in a ~positive~light~ in such a situation? I don't want to > > piss on his presentation, but I would like to at least get people > > interested in BSD as an alternative. > > I'd ask him what he thinks of the BSD license now that the advertising clause > has been removed. He's pretty much covered that on the fsf website, though he seems to hold an arbitrary grudge about calling it the bsd license. I'd ask him if he thinks we should call FreeBSD GNU/FreeBSD since he seems to think it contains a great deal of gpl stuff. Also, you could ask him to name a single instance where the additional freedom afforded by the BSD licenses relative to the GPL has hurt the Open Source/Free Software community, and then ask how many times companies might have passed up even starting work on something because of the legal issues surrounding GPL... > > If he starts to be an ass remind him that it's now "more free" then the GPL, > I'm sure that would push a button or two. > > -- > Bill Fumerola - Network Architect, BOFH / Chimes, Inc. > billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland Intern, Flooz.com Northwestern '04 stuyman@confusion.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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