From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 21 11:53: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D8237B92D for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:52:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA23611; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:52:37 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000621124540.048b67b0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:52:26 -0600 To: Brad Knowles , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Yet more attacks on BSD from Leibovitz In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000621095116.04662d60@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000621095116.04662d60@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 10:25 AM 6/21/2000, Brad Knowles wrote: >>http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2591417,00.html > > I can't speak for any others (I haven't read them, and probably won't), but this particular article doesn't strike me as being "BSD bashing". It is. It dismisses those who advocate BSD-style licensing as "hating" the GPL (implying an emotional response rather than sound ethical convictions). It also attempts to link advocacy of BSD licensing to the amoral "objectivism" of the followers of Ayn Rand. And it parrots Stallman's assertions that commercial developers are "hoarders." (Never mind that the FSF has a far larger "hoard" of software of which it has exclusive ownership than any commercial developer except perhaps Microsoft or IBM.) This article deserves a vigorous response. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message