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Date:      Fri, 18 May 2001 11:28:34 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Don Wilde <Don@Silver-Lynx.com>
Cc:        Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, core@daemonnews.org
Subject:   Re: [dn-core] Re: Perens' "Free Software Leaders Stand Together"
Message-ID:  <20010518112834.I55915@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <3B03E05F.9A86C0C4@Silver-Lynx.com>; from Don@Silver-Lynx.com on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:29:51AM -0600
References:  <20010517161636.A28350@totem.fix.no> <3B03E05F.9A86C0C4@Silver-Lynx.com>

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On Thursday, 17 May 2001 at  8:29:51 -0600, Don Wilde wrote:
>
>
> Anders Nordby wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a little dissatisfied with the fact that it seems Bruce Perens
>> doesn't seem to want to include any BSD persons on a list of "free
>> software leaders". Is he really that much of a zealot, and does he lack
>> history knowledge? Or is it just me that got this all wrong? Did he
>> actually ask any BSD persons?
>>
> He says quite clearly that he is focusing on GPL. That's his right.
> There's nothing stopping us from doing likewise. He obviously believes
> the GPL is a "better" license. Perhaps we can ask Chris Coleman to add a
> page to DaemonNews.org with a simple PHP/MySQL sign-up so that we can
> _all_ add our signatures and e-mails to such a letter. Come to think of
> it, this would probably be a great way to tell how many users *BSD
> actually has...

*sigh* Bruce seems to be apprehensive about our reaction.  In his
words, we should "stand together", not set up our own reaction.  I've
replied to the thread in this vein.

Greg
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