From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 23 20:59:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5FAB157E6 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:59:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (j13.ktb6.jaring.my [161.142.234.27]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12854; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 15:29:25 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA02580; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:25:48 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 11:25:48 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Brett Glass Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat Subject: Re: UCITA (Important) Message-ID: <20000124112548.D2398@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <4.2.2.20000121141100.019a6370@localhost> <4.2.2.20000121131307.01a32380@localhost> <20000122133716.J391@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 01:04:16AM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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