From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 8 23:36:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 290224283 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:31:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA08547; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 18:29:09 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000208182726.04122830@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 18:28:55 -0700 To: Greg Lehey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: What Linus said about FreeBSD Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000209115700.H41453@freebie.lemis.com> References: <4.2.2.20000208111617.045e2730@localhost> <4.2.2.20000207163850.00cf03c0@localhost> <4.2.2.20000208111617.045e2730@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:27 PM 2/8/2000 , Greg Lehey wrote: >My recollection is that the real issue was more that we were trying to >advocate FreeBSD, not put down the GPL. No, that was a different discussion. However, the GPL very much DOES deserve to be "put down." It's a malicious scam designed to hurt programmers' livelihoods and sabotage businesses. An important positive selling point for BSD UNIX is that it is not licensed under the GPL. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message