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Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 11:02:33 -0600
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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Mercury News forum slanted toward GPL
Cc: david@usermode.org, tchrist@chthon.perl.com,
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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


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