Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:41:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>, "Dan O'Brien" <dmobrien@lucent.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting diversion - M$ vs OSS Message-ID: <199811131941.LAA01359@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:25:05 MST." <4.1.19981113112331.06eb1dc0@127.0.0.1>
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> At 01:36 PM 11/4/98 -0500, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > > >Ever met Eric? I have. When the hosts of the Atlanta Linux Exposition > >we gracious (and open minded) enough to let us participate with FreeBSD, > >he shows up screaming that we're heretics. > > Definitely a fanatic, but kinda humorous. > > Eric is, IMHO, trying to play "spinmeister" for Linux by publicly > downplaying Stallman's radical views and the damaging aspects of the > GPL. But I've been told that he is a strong advocate of the GPL and > trashes *BSD in private. Eric is a almost-zero-content provider desperately manipulating the "open source" image to his best advantage. He'll take any stance he feels will win him approval at the time. It's trivial to trash the guy, but I think the most succinct thing you can say about him is that he's largely irrelevant. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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