From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 5 21: 1:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7673237B43C for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 21:01:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA12525; Sat, 5 May 2001 22:01:24 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010505215722.04649ed0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 22:01:20 -0600 To: Joseph Mallett From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Is Brett Glass to easy on RMS? Cc: Joe Warner , "G. Adam Stanislav" , In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010505212911.00c3d3a0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:47 PM 5/5/2001, Joseph Mallett wrote: >NetBSD has a page about that, does FreeBSD? In any case, making a big deal >out of it makes the BSD community look like they want publicity because of >it. I think that a certain amount of recognition of these points would not be a bad thing. The integrity of the philosophy is reflected in the integrity of the software. >Modestly stating that freedom to use and redistribute are important to >the community as a whole, however, is tasteful, justified, and, unlike all >of the GPL advocacy that says the same thing, true. Agree. But let's not soft-pedal it TOO much. To quote an old, old poem: The codfish lays 10,000 eggs; The common hen lays one. The codfish never cackles To tell us what she's done. And so we scorn the codfish, While the noble hen we prize.... Which only goes to show you That it pays to advertise. Author unknown --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message