Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:25:48 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: UCITA (Important) Message-ID: <20000124112548.D2398@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 01:04:16AM -0700 References: <4.2.2.20000121141100.019a6370@localhost> <4.2.2.20000121131307.01a32380@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001212105050.31653-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk. <4.2.2.20000121141100.019a6370@localhost> <20000122133716.J391@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost>
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On Sunday, 23 January 2000 at 1:04:16 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 10:37 PM 1/21/2000 , Greg Lehey wrote: > >> You'll get better acceptance of an article on UCITA if you don't >> mention any other restrictive licenses. > > Why mention some restrictive licenses (e.g. the Microsoft EULAs) > and not others (e.g. the GPL)? Because you need to keep your audience's attention. Perpetual GNU-bashing will just have a large number of people saying "Oh, Brett's turning this into an anti-GPL diatribe again", and stop reading. This has nothing to do with the relative merits of the topic. Keep your focus on UCITA in an article on UCITA. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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