From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 9 14:09:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11277 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 14:09:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from general1.consumersedge.com (mail.personalogic.com [208.213.67.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11269; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 14:09:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dshanes@personalogic.com) Received: from SHANES by general1.consumersedge.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1458.49) id 2PDPY1KC; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 14:09:36 -0700 Message-ID: <025301bd63fb$0b94bc80$1d43a8c0@shanes.personalogic.com> From: "David Shanes" To: , "Brett Glass" , Subject: Fw: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 14:04:11 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here is Tim O'Reilly's response. David _____________________________________________________ David Shanes 7535 Metropolitan Drive dshanes@personalogic.com San Diego, CA 92108 Database Developer (619) 220-5800 x228 PersonaLogic, Inc. (619) 220-5899 (fax) http://www.PersonaLogic.com -----Original Message----- From: Tim O'Reilly To: David Shanes Cc: tim@oreilly.com Date: Thursday, April 09, 1998 12:56 PM Subject: Re: Your Article "Freeware: The Heart & Soul of the Internet" >The basic reason I didn't invite someone from FreeBSD was that >the group was getting too large; moreover, I don't really know >Jordan, where I do know the other folks. Still, it was probably >an oversight. > >I certainly focussed on the major contributions of the BSD >team to the whole movement. I did invite Kirk McKusick, but >he was out of town. (We had lunch the week before the >meeting to make sure I had his perspective.) While I >know that Kirk is no longer actively involved, he has >a perspective on the contributions of Berkeley UNIX and >where it is going. > >We plan to have followup meetings. I would definitely like >to have someone from FreeBSD come to the meeting. > >BTW, the main focus was on internet software, not on >operating systems. Basically, I was trying to counter >the idea that the important free software is on the desktop. >In fact, most of the Internet was built by the free software >movement. But not by people who think of themselves >particularly as "free software" advocates. > > >-- >Tim O'Reilly @ O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. >101 Morris Street, Sebastopol, CA 95472 >707-829-0515 ext 266, Fax 707-829-0104, tim@oreilly.com >http://www.oreilly.com http://software.oreilly.com http://www.songline.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message