From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Sep 19 3:38:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br (gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br [200.248.148.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949AF37B42C for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 03:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (casantos@localhost) by gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA20245; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:22:18 GMT (envelope-from casantos@cpmet.ufpel.tche.br) X-Authentication-Warning: gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br: casantos owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:22:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Carlos A M dos Santos To: Wes Peters Cc: Mike Doyle , freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Articles on the "Open Source" concept In-Reply-To: <39C4EA8E.5974F63C@softweyr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Wes Peters wrote: > Carlos A M dos Santos wrote: > > > > You shoult take a look at "The Ethics of Free Software" for a less rosy > > point of view: > > > > http://www.sdmagazine.com/features/2000/03/f4.shtml > > Heh, I've even referenced this article myself. I did, however, have > the sense to point out Dr. Meyer contradicts himself several times in > the course of this diatribe, even stooping so low as to perform > *exactly* the same disservice he so thoroughly chides Eric Raymond > for, in the process of chiding Eric. Upon contemplation, this is a > poorly thought out impassioned plea masqeurading as a carefully > written philosophical discourse. Of course it's a philosophical discourse, in the same sense that ESR's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" (CatB) is, but I could not find a single lie in Meyer's article. CatB, OTOH is full of false assumptions about the quality of "open source" software and is based on a distorted interpretation of Fred Brook's book "The mythical man-month". CatB has no scientific base. -- Carlos A. M. dos Santos Federal University of Pelotas Meteorological Research Center Av. Ildefonso Simoes Lopes 2791 Pelotas, RS, Brasil, CEP 96060-290 WWW: http://www.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br RENPAC (X.25): 153231641 Phone: +55 53 277-6767 FAX: +55 53 277-6722 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message