How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-13 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
http://www.freewebs.com/sepero/index.html The author says: Notice: Please do not waste your time reading this if you care nothing about the promotion of OSS and it's community! This document is for the advancement of OSS, not just the contribution to it. If after reading this, you still

Re: How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-13 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote: The GPL nuts have taken over the word free, just like certain political views are using the words free and freedom to mean the way we like it. What happened to the license FAQ there was talk about a while ago? - ask --

RE: How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
http://www.freewebs.com/sepero/index.html Of course LSD hurts OpenSource! People on LSD have impaired judgment and are prone to flights of fancy, including shared utopian faux philosophies. How could anyone argue that LSD doesn't hurt OpenSource? Oh? *B*SD? Sorry! Nevermind. ---

Re: How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-13 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 13.05.2003 20:23:51 Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: The GPL nuts have taken over the word free, just like certain political views are using the words free and freedom to mean the way we like it. How true. What happened to the license FAQ there was talk about a while ago? The following page

RE: How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-13 Thread Martin van den Bemt
I just mailed him that he shouldn't waste my time.. What a major idiot.. Mvgr, Martin -Original Message- From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 20:12 To: community@apache.org Subject: How BSD hurts OpenSource

Re: How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-13 Thread Thom May
* Nicola Ken Barozzi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : http://www.freewebs.com/sepero/index.html He's clueless and demonstrably wrong. No OpenSource software, licensed under BSD, will EVER be able to compete with it's proprietary equivalent. Explain us, then. The rest of the piece seems to be

Re: How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-13 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: What happened to the license FAQ there was talk about a while ago? you mean http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html ? -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/

RE: How BSD hurts OpenSource

2003-05-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I don't suppose anyone caught Stallman's response in the 3/24 issue of Business Week, to the Linux article published on 3/3? He said the same thing to Leo Laporte last Fall. In the same interview, he added that songs could not be owned because they are creative acts like programs, althought