Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:34:04 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Excellent Gartner Group report: Debunking Open Source Mythsc Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000131153150.041f1e40@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000131154913.A68925@freebie.lemis.com> References: <4.2.2.20000130215249.00b91690@localhost> <4.2.2.20000128130927.046ee770@localhost> <xzpvh4exk9i.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <4.2.2.20000128130927.046ee770@localhost> <20000129134928.D17521@freebie.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000130215249.00b91690@localhost>
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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
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