From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 5 12:13:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81BBA1522F for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:13:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co) Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co ([168.176.3.40]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.0) with ESMTP id AAA4743 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 15:11:56 -0500 Message-ID: <36E03AD3.F178DABE@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 15:13:07 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: U. Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The GPL might kill itself ? References: <19990303223610E.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> <19990305100635.N5328@lehman.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hmm...maybe I should send a message like this to Whistle.com : the last time I looked, Netcraft reported they were using a M$ machine ! Pedro. nclayton@lehman.com wrote: > ... > > More specifically, the machine hosting the website is running Linux. > > > I expect FreeBSD to be very popular with the types of developers > > who will be interested in this, be patient and lend us a hand with some > > good advocacy on behalf of FreeBSD. We don't need to alienate ourselves > > from the action. > > > > IMHO this is a project that is very good for FreeBSD. I certainly hope > > that some of -core get interested in the project as well. I believe > > very strongly that CTI is very late coming around to FreeBSD which seems > > to be a natural fit for those applications. > > If anyone knows anything about these sorts of applications, an e-mail to > them that started something like; > > I was browsing your site the other day, and was struck by the > similarity in appearance to the FreeBSD site at > http://www.freebsd.org/. > > FreeBSD is another Unix-like operating system where the source code > is freely available -- indeed, some would argue it is more free than > Linux, because it doesn't have the GPL restrictions attached. > > [ and then start talking about whatever it is you actually want to > talk about ] > > Might be a good idea. > > N To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message