From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Mar 6 11:57:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90FB237B719 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:57:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA1669; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:02:07 -0800 Message-ID: <3AA5411A.8C658FF8@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 11:57:14 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010306011539.045faaa0@localhost> <20010304130501.A32152@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010303132348.04461420@localhost> <20010304130501.A32152@lpt.ens.fr> <20010305124910.A44291@darkstar.gte.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20010306011539.045faaa0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010306122926.046aacb0@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass wrote: > >Commercial companies grabbing everything they can, and open > >source refugees moving from inspiration to inspiration. > >(Dodging lawsuits all the while.) > > Sorry, but while your image of open source advocates being > "refugees" or "dodging lawsuits" sounds heroic, in fact nothing > of the kind is happening. Sort of like the Declaration of the freedevelopers.net. They make it sound as if they are rebels and revolutionaries striking a blow against tyranny. But there are no kings or tyrants for them to rebel against. There are no laws against giving away or sharing your own property. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message