From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 24 18: 3: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D98D14DF3 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:02:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (j24.klt32.jaring.my [161.142.169.158]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13939; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:31:18 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA03308; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:48:44 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:48:44 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat Subject: Reaching the reader (was: UCITA (Important)) Message-ID: <20000124164844.J2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost> <4.2.2.20000121141100.019a6370@localhost> <4.2.2.20000121131307.01a32380@localhost> <20000122133716.J391@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost> <20000124112548.D2398@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000123230049.00d51100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000123230049.00d51100@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:02:02PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 23 January 2000 at 23:02:02 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 08:25 PM 1/23/2000 , Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> Why mention some restrictive licenses (e.g. the Microsoft EULAs) >>> and not others (e.g. the GPL)? >> >> Because you need to keep your audience's attention. Perpetual >> GNU-bashing will just have a large number of people saying "Oh, >> Brett's turning this into an anti-GPL diatribe again", and stop >> reading. > > Opposing restrictive licenses -- whether they're the Microsoft > EULA or the GPL -- isn't "bashing" or a "diatribe." It's > good sense. That wasn't the issue, and I'm tired of trying to explain to you things that seem obvious to just about everybody else I speak to, so I'll stop. The real question is "will people read it?". That's not up to you or me: it's up to the readers. Why don't you write your article, and I'll make an edited version and publish it under a fictitious name. Then we look at the number of hits we get on each version. Would that seem a fair indication of how much each version conveys its point? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message