From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 15:33:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A545437B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:33:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snark.piermont.com (snark.piermont.com [166.84.151.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0646C43E3B for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:33:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perry@piermont.com) Received: by snark.piermont.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3BF51D97C9; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 18:33:26 -0400 (EDT) To: "Karl O . Pinc" Cc: gnu@gnu.org, osi@opensource.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, netbsd-advocacy@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Software License Sound Bites, Version 0.1 References: <20020717144903.S27553@mofo.meme.com> From: "Perry E. Metzger" Date: 17 Jul 2002 18:33:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20020717144903.S27553@mofo.meme.com> Message-ID: <87y9cat26h.fsf@snark.piermont.com> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Karl O . Pinc" writes: > In an effort to combat the general confusion surrounding the terms > Free Software and Open Source, I have attempted to write some sound > bites to define, contrast, and comment on the terms. Other than RMS's desire to distinguish his work from open source work, what's the point? Myself, I find the discussion fruitless. I write code, I give it away. I'm not interested in furthering battles between the People's Judean Liberation Front, the Judean People's Liberation Front, and the People's Front for the Liberation of Judea. Perry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message