From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 19 12:23: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hq-port-89.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2547154E9 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 12:23:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA19722; Wed, 19 May 1999 12:29:27 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:29:27 -0700 (PDT) From: To: spork Cc: Brett Glass , James Howard , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free VMWare and open BIOS! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Lord knows RedHat is second only to Linux in its capacity for malevolence and evil. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet On Wed, 19 May 1999, spork wrote: > On Wed, 19 May 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > > > At 12:16 PM 5/19/99 -0400, James Howard wrote: > > > > >And that is why you should at least email those people involved and show > > >them why this (more than most any other software project) should be using > > >a Berkeley license. > > > > I doubt that this would do much good at this point. The page makes very > > frequent mention of the fact that the project is being sponsored and > > supported by Red Hat. > > I hope this won't stop you from emailing them. You must have a form > letter by now, right? Share it, and we can all voice our opinions on this > issue. It's pretty easy, and I'm sure most people in -chat wouldn't mind > sending a polite letter explaining why a BSD license would serve them > better. > > Charles > > > This is the sad and scary thing about the GPL. To paraphrase the old > > commercial for insect killer, it checks in but it doesn't check out. > > And where it checks in, it destroys livelihoods and alternatives. > > > > --Brett Glass > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message