From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Sep 17 8:46:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F8837B423 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13agms-0000WW-00; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:55:26 -0600 Message-ID: <39C4E96E.BF8C1968@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:55:26 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Doyle Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Articles on the "Open Source" concept References: <3.0.5.32.20000915115451.00820210@199.107.2.1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Doyle wrote: > > Hi All > > The accountant in my company has just noticed that I deployed another > application on our FreeBSD server. (A web-based group calendar from > SourceForge). > > He seems to be amazed that I got this "free", and wants to know more about > open source. The only articles I have bookmarked are the ESR writings. I know > there are other contrasting and opposing views out there. > > Has anyone got any handy URLs for the ethos behind creating/mantaining > Open Source projects ? Of course: http://www.daemonnews.org/200003/d-advocate.html ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message