From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 17 19: 0:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9578337B61B for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 19:00:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 7E1336ACBE; Fri, 18 May 2001 11:28:34 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:28:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Don Wilde Cc: Anders Nordby , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, core@daemonnews.org Subject: Re: [dn-core] Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together" Message-ID: <20010518112834.I55915@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010517161636.A28350@totem.fix.no> <3B03E05F.9A86C0C4@Silver-Lynx.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B03E05F.9A86C0C4@Silver-Lynx.com>; from Don@Silver-Lynx.com on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:29:51AM -0600 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 17 May 2001 at 8:29:51 -0600, Don Wilde wrote: > > > 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... *sigh* Bruce seems to be apprehensive about our reaction. In his words, we should "stand together", not set up our own reaction. I've replied to the thread in this vein. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message