From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 4 12:06:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01495 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 12:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from out2.ibm.net (out2.ibm.net [165.87.194.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01469; Mon, 4 May 1998 12:06:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwilde1@ibm.net) Received: from ibm.net (slip-32-100-79-57.ca.us.ibm.net [32.100.79.57]) by out2.ibm.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id TAA12328; Mon, 4 May 1998 19:06:36 GMT Message-ID: <354E1196.3AEA02AC@ibm.net> Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 12:05:58 -0700 From: Don Wilde Reply-To: dwilde1@ibm.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG CC: Tim Vanderhoek , freelist@webweaver.net, brett@lariat.org, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: InfoWorld Electric: Linux Zealots Trashing FreeBSD, Berkeley References: <199805032354.SAA00679@dyson.iquest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John S. Dyson wrote: > I suggest that synergy with industry is not only *not* destructive > to free software, but actually helps fund it. I believe that > free software can be produced by commercial developers, who often > tend to be very practiced and skillful. By taking profit motive > away by making enhancements necessarily encumbered, this takes > a degree of freedom away from those who have to feed their families, > as opposed to being fed by their families. Anybody running X? Mesa? BSD Itself? Of course we need professionals to freely contribute. The fact that their company can also use the 'product' is why many are allowed to do so. I hope some of the energy you are putting into NCI will come back to us. I know it will! --> Don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message