From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 18 1:27: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 845E837B423 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 01:26:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f3I8Quq12521 ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:26:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id KAA30929 ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:26:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 10:26:55 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: David Johnson , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MacOS Themes, was RE: Windriver, Slackware and FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010418102655.E27000@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Ted Mittelstaedt , David Johnson , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010418091652.A27000@lpt.ens.fr> <006e01c0c7dd$fd2c1b80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <006e01c0c7dd$fd2c1b80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:03:01AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt said on Apr 18, 2001 at 01:03:01: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Rahul Siddharthan [mailto:rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in] > > > >Another bit of uneasy news was Apple's threatening a Mac theme editor, > >http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/main_news.cfm?NewsID=2773 > >Note that this is quite different from threatening themes.org: this > >editor was for creating themes for *MacOS itself*. > > > > This is fallout from the Napster decision, I wouldn't worry about it, > and indeed the entire Napster thing is just a rehash of the lawsuits > over the copy protection software that took place back in the 80's. Whatever. I'm not worried about theme editors for MacOS, but about corporate attitudes in general. Wind River's action about slackware is not very encouraging. In any case, they don't have any kind of known commitment to free software, and (from what I've read about them) no particular motivation for donating anything back to FreeBSD. As such, I'm happy if they hire individual FreeBSD people to help them with their embedded system work, but I am not happy if the FreeBSD OS itself becomes closely associated with such a company -- any more than I would be if Transmeta tried to associate itself with linux (which they don't). People in the linux world complain about the dominance of Red Hat and the popular "RH=linux" misconception, but at least RH's commitment to free software has never been in doubt. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message