From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Sep 20 22:11:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA28178 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28159 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:11:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02874; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:10:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199809210510.WAA02874@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on the Intel-UNIX standard In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:11:01 PDT." <199809210511.WAA03461@word.smith.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 22:10:07 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > perhaps elsewhere. Don't rail about how a BSD license would be better > - instead make it clear that the reference implementation shouldn't be > encumbered by the GPL as it will hinder its incorporation into other > systems. Encourage them to consider the BSD kernel as an alternative, > or to publish without including any GPL code in their reference. > > These people will respond well to "this approach will promote UDI > better". They will not respond well to "Linux has cooties". I really do take offense to your rational words of wisdom fir it makes my job of responding much harder 8) Let me poke around a little . Blind insect-like linux fanaticism is not the easiest thing to deal with . Night , Night and Best Regards, Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message