From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Sep 17 8:52:10 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 4D55937B422 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:52:09 -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 13agrX-0000Wr-00; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:00:15 -0600 Message-ID: <39C4EA8E.5974F63C@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:00:14 -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: Carlos A M dos Santos Cc: Mike Doyle , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Articles on the "Open Source" concept References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Carlos A M dos Santos wrote: > > You shoult take a look at "The Ethics of Free Software" for a less rosy > point of view: > > http://www.sdmagazine.com/features/2000/03/f4.shtml Heh, I've even referenced this article myself. I did, however, have the sense to point out Dr. Meyer contradicts himself several times in the course of this diatribe, even stooping so low as to perform *exactly* the same disservice he so thoroughly chides Eric Raymond for, in the process of chiding Eric. Upon contemplation, this is a poorly thought out impassioned plea masqeurading as a carefully written philosophical discourse. -- "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