From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 9 2:16:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997F7528D for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2000 02:04:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12ITvu-0008SR-00; Wed, 09 Feb 2000 12:01:14 +0200 Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 12:01:14 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Brett Glass Cc: Greg Lehey , Jonathon McKitrick , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What Linus said about FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000209120114.A31865@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <4.2.2.20000208111617.045e2730@localhost> <4.2.2.20000207163850.00cf03c0@localhost> <20000209115700.H41453@freebie.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000208182726.04122830@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000208182726.04122830@localhost> Organization: Rhodes University Computer Users' Society X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue 2000-02-08 (18:28), Brett Glass wrote: > 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. I propose we have two Bretts then. The anti-GPL one who we can flame for causing bad PR amongst the Linux (and other) people, and the pro-BSD one who we can agree with, and who can provide us with some good ideas and tactics to improve our PR through positive means, not through negative (ie, attacking others) means. Chainsaw, anyone? Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message