Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:49:13 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Excellent Gartner Group report: Debunking Open Source Mythsc Message-ID: <20000131154913.A68925@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000130215249.00b91690@localhost> References: <4.2.2.20000128130927.046ee770@localhost> <xzpvh4exk9i.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <4.2.2.20000128130927.046ee770@localhost> <20000129134928.D17521@freebie.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000130215249.00b91690@localhost>
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On Sunday, 30 January 2000 at 21:56:31 -0700, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 08:19 PM 1/28/2000 , Greg Lehey wrote:
>
>>> Alas, it's factually incorrect on several points. In particular, it
>>> credits Stallman with originating the idea of open source software
>>> "in 1984."
>>
>> Well, no, that's not what it says. To quote:
>>
>> The decision by AT&T to commercialize Unix in 1984 prompted the
>> first attempt to organize the concept of free software ("free" as in
>> freedom, not free of charge) around a license and a development
>> project (see Note 2).
>>
>> What part of that do you consider incorrect?
>
> The date (Stallman started his campaign to destroy commercial
> software developers before 1984) and also the motivation (it was the
> spinoff of Symbolics from the MIT AI Lab that started him on his
> vendetta). Also, AT&T sold commercial licenses for UNIX well before
> 1984; it started doing so immediately after divestiture. So, just
> about everything in the paragraph is incorrect.
It seems that you are saying "except for one date, everything in the
paragraph is correct".
Greg
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