From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Feb 26 12:25:35 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2894837B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:25:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (thor.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 624EB43FB1 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:25:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HAX00F73NCEAZ@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:24:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:17:21 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-161.acuson.com ([157.226.46.161]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Y2R0T09Y; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:18:38 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:24:54 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: O'Reilly apologizes for calling BSD "Free Software" To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Message-id: <200302261224.54884.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yes it's true. The Technical Editor of the O'Reilly Network (chromatic@oreilly.com) has apologized for "apparently conflating the BSDs with `Free Software`". See the whole article at . I might expect a comment like that from a Slashdot editor, but it boggles the mind coming from an O'Reilly editor. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message