From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 31 14:40:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9295814EBD for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 14:40:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA27443; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:40:11 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000131153150.041f1e40@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:34:04 -0700 To: Greg Lehey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Excellent Gartner Group report: Debunking Open Source Mythsc Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20000131154913.A68925@freebie.lemis.com> References: <4.2.2.20000130215249.00b91690@localhost> <4.2.2.20000128130927.046ee770@localhost> <4.2.2.20000128130927.046ee770@localhost> <20000129134928.D17521@freebie.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000130215249.00b91690@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 10:19 PM 1/30/2000 , Greg Lehey wrote: > >> 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". In that case, your comprehension of what I wrote is not good. As I said, the paragraph mis-states Stallman's motivation and says that events were concurrent when they were not. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message