Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 10:57:20 -0700 From: "David Shanes" <dshanes@personalogic.com> To: <advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Subject: Fw: "Free and Open Source Software" Message-ID: <01db01bd6d4e$ee352960$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>
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Here is the message I sent in response to Brett's e-mail on the radio show http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1998/Apr/hour2b_041798.html Brett & Greg - I am also sending this directly to you, I did not know if you were on advocacy. David -----Original Message----- From: David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com> To: producer@sciencefriday.com <producer@sciencefriday.com>; ceo@sciencentral.com <ceo@sciencentral.com> Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 10:01 AM Subject: "Free and Open Source Software" >Dear All, > I applaud your efforts at supporting free software. As many of us know, >free software is the backbone of the Internet. > I must admit that I feel cheated that your show had no mention of >FreeBSD, a free version of the UNIX system, similar to Linux. I use FreeBSD >and feel it is a more stable operating system. Yahoo! and CDROM.COM (Walnut >Creek CD-ROM) must agree because they use it on their heavily used site. > Would it be possible to mention that it was left out of your show? Was >there any particular reason FreeBSD was not mentioned? > Thank you for your time. > >Sincerely, >David >_____________________________________________________ >David Shanes 7535 Metropolitan Drive >dshanes@personalogic.com San Diego, CA 92108 >Database Developer (619) 220-5800 x228 >PersonaLogic, Inc. (619) 220-5899 (fax) >http://www.PersonaLogic.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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