From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 17 7:29:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nwlynx.network-lynx.net (nwlynx.network-lynx.net [63.122.185.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2240F37B422 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 07:29:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Don@Silver-Lynx.com) Received: from Silver-Lynx.com (doze-1.network-lynx.net [63.122.185.106]) by nwlynx.network-lynx.net (8.11.1/8.9.3/Who.Cares) with ESMTP id f4HEUBx17876; Thu, 17 May 2001 08:30:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from Don@Silver-Lynx.com) Message-ID: <3B03E05F.9A86C0C4@Silver-Lynx.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 08:29:51 -0600 From: Don Wilde X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anders Nordby Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, core@daemonnews.org Subject: Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together" References: <20010517161636.A28350@totem.fix.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anders Nordby wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm a little dissatisfied with the fact that it seems Bruce Perens > doesn't seem to want to include any BSD persons on a list of "free > software leaders". Is he really that much of a zealot, and does he lack > history knowledge? Or is it just me that got this all wrong? Did he > actually ask any BSD persons? > He says quite clearly that he is focusing on GPL. That's his right. There's nothing stopping us from doing likewise. He obviously believes the GPL is a "better" license. Perhaps we can ask Chris Coleman to add a page to DaemonNews.org with a simple PHP/MySQL sign-up so that we can _all_ add our signatures and e-mails to such a letter. Come to think of it, this would probably be a great way to tell how many users *BSD actually has... -- Don Wilde http://www.Silver-Lynx.com Silver Lynx Embedded Microsystems Architects 2218 Southern Bl. Ste. 12 Rio Rancho, NM 87124 505-891-4175 FAX 891-4185 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message