Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 14:04:11 -0700 From: "David Shanes" <dshanes@personalogic.com> To: <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Message-ID: <025301bd63fb$0b94bc80$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com>
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Here is Tim O'Reilly's response. 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 -----Original Message----- From: Tim O'Reilly <tim@ora.com> To: David Shanes <dshanes@personalogic.com> Cc: tim@oreilly.com <tim@oreilly.com> Date: Thursday, April 09, 1998 12:56 PM Subject: Re: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" >The basic reason I didn't invite someone from FreeBSD was that >the group was getting too large; moreover, I don't really know >Jordan, where I do know the other folks. Still, it was probably >an oversight. > >I certainly focussed on the major contributions of the BSD >team to the whole movement. I did invite Kirk McKusick, but >he was out of town. (We had lunch the week before the >meeting to make sure I had his perspective.) While I >know that Kirk is no longer actively involved, he has >a perspective on the contributions of Berkeley UNIX and >where it is going. > >We plan to have followup meetings. I would definitely like >to have someone from FreeBSD come to the meeting. > >BTW, the main focus was on internet software, not on >operating systems. Basically, I was trying to counter >the idea that the important free software is on the desktop. >In fact, most of the Internet was built by the free software >movement. But not by people who think of themselves >particularly as "free software" advocates. > > >-- >Tim O'Reilly @ O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. >101 Morris Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472 >707-829-0515 ext 266, Fax 707-829-0104, tim@oreilly.com >http://www.oreilly.com http://software.oreilly.com http://www.songline.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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