Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 16:48:44 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Reaching the reader (was: UCITA (Important)) Message-ID: <20000124164844.J2643@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000123230049.00d51100@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 11:02:02PM -0700 References: <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost> <4.2.2.20000121141100.019a6370@localhost> <4.2.2.20000121131307.01a32380@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001212105050.31653-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk. <4.2.2.20000121141100.019a6370@localhost> <20000122133716.J391@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000123010329.01aba360@localhost> <20000124112548.D2398@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.2.2.20000123230049.00d51100@localhost>
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On Sunday, 23 January 2000 at 23:02:02 -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > 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. That wasn't the issue, and I'm tired of trying to explain to you things that seem obvious to just about everybody else I speak to, so I'll stop. The real question is "will people read it?". That's not up to you or me: it's up to the readers. Why don't you write your article, and I'll make an edited version and publish it under a fictitious name. Then we look at the number of hits we get on each version. Would that seem a fair indication of how much each version conveys its point? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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