From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 23 22: 2:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449CC158B0 for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:02:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from workhorse (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA20631; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 23:02:01 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000123230049.00d51100@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 23:02:02 -0700 To: Greg Lehey From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: UCITA (Important) Cc: freebsd-chat In-Reply-To: <20000124112548.D2398@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost> <4.2.2.20000121141100.019a6370@localhost> <4.2.2.20000121131307.01a32380@localhost> <20000122133716.J391@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:25 PM 1/23/2000 , Greg Lehey wrote: > > Why mention some restrictive licenses (e.g. the Microsoft EULAs) > > and not others (e.g. the GPL)? > >Because you need to keep your audience's attention. Perpetual >GNU-bashing will just have a large number of people saying "Oh, >Brett's turning this into an anti-GPL diatribe again", and stop >reading. Opposing restrictive licenses -- whether they're the Microsoft EULA or the GPL -- isn't "bashing" or a "diatribe." It's good sense. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message