From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 22 11:57:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB24F37C05B for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 11:57:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA12429; Mon, 22 May 2000 12:56:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000522125201.00e4be10@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:56:45 -0600 To: Anatoly Vorobey , Arun Sharma From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The Ethics of Free Software Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000522145256.A5983@happy.checkpoint.com> References: <20000521131809.A6546@sharmas.dhs.org> <20000521131809.A6546@sharmas.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:52 AM 5/22/2000, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: >I thought it was really, really silly, in the true spirit of >Meyer wars raging occassionally on comp.object (the most memorable >one being "had they used Eiffel, that rocket wouldn't have crashed!"). I thought that it was extremely insightful. However, it did not cite some of the best examples of the FSF's intentional malevolence (and, therefore, lack of ethics) and thus could have made stronger arguments. The dig at FreeBSD was unfortunate. However, it was really more of a dig at the C language (which truly IS a source of serious bugs and security holes). --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message