From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 30 20:57:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E2D14CCF for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 20:57:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA18490; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:56:34 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000130215249.00b91690@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:56:31 -0700 To: Greg Lehey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Excellent Gartner Group report: Debunking Open Source Mythsc Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000129134928.D17521@freebie.lemis.com> References: <4.2.2.20000128130927.046ee770@localhost> <4.2.2.20000128130927.046ee770@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:19 PM 1/28/2000 , Greg Lehey wrote: > > Alas, it's factually incorrect on several points. In particular, it > > credits Stallman with originating the idea of open source software > > "in 1984." > >Well, no, that's not what it says. To quote: > > The decision by AT&T to commercialize Unix in 1984 prompted the > first attempt to organize the concept of free software ("free" as in > freedom, not free of charge) around a license and a development > project (see Note 2). > >What part of that do you consider incorrect? The date (Stallman started his campaign to destroy commercial software developers before 1984) and also the motivation (it was the spinoff of Symbolics from the MIT AI Lab that started him on his vendetta). Also, AT&T sold commercial licenses for UNIX well before 1984; it started doing so immediately after divestiture. So, just about everything in the paragraph is incorrect. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message