Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:02:33 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: david@usermode.org, tchrist@chthon.perl.com, jpaczkowski@knightridder.com Subject: Mercury News forum slanted toward GPL Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010620105255.05427dc0@localhost>
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The San Jose Mercury News has just announced a "Roundtable" in which "experts" on open source software and a representative or two of Microsoft will debate licensing issues. It's described at http://www.siliconvalley.com/roundtable/ Note that no one from the open source world who is CRITICAL of the GPL is there; the panel consists mostly of GPL advocates and then one Microsoft exec and one fellow whose philosophy can best be described as "corporate pseudo-Libertarian." The BSD license and the BSD philosophy have been denied a voice. Those who believe that the GPL is not a good license for freely redistributable and/or peer-reviewed software -- e.g. Tom Christiansen and David Johnson -- are not represented. Perhaps if folks here comment via the link at the bottom of the page, the BSD philosophy of maximum freedom -- without poison pills or restrictions motivated by spite -- could be represented. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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