From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 5 11: 0:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from yowie.cc.uq.edu.au (yowie.cc.uq.edu.au [130.102.2.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA9837B718 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 11:00:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from s337240@student.uq.edu.au) Received: from student.uq.edu.au (s337240@student.uq.edu.au [130.102.87.136]) by yowie.cc.uq.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA07991; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 04:59:36 +1000 (GMT+1000) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 04:59:36 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Trent Waddington To: Brett Glass Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , David Johnson , Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305114235.046da630@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Brett Glass wrote: > What we have is a war that is escalating on BOTH sides. Many people who > never worried about protecting their intellectual property are now > under siege by the followers of Stallman and feel that they have to > take extreme measures. Again, we need to broker a new and lasting peace. > But Stallman, Barlow, and others are selfishly trying to instigate, and > then take advantage of, a war. Hence the Richard III analogy. A war of words. A war of legal strategy. A war of corporate politics. But a war of blood and killing ala Richard III, let's try to keep some perspective here. The "balance" you are talking about can also be refered to as ignorance and self denial. Trent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message