Subject: Re: Eric Raymond talks about GPL and BSD licenses
To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 06/08/2005 10:15:21
On 6/8/05, Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> wrote:
>=20
> On 8-Jun-05, at 10:27 AM, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> > I hope he does comment on it, I'll be watching for it. I know the guy
> > has written some pretty thought provoking stuff, but I don't have any
> > opinion of him other than that. I know he's well known, and words like
> > this coming from well known people is usually (note I didn't say
> > always) a good thing.
>=20
> I lost all respect for him when he told NetBSD that we didn't qualify
> as "Open Source" because we didn't sell enough CD's.
>=20
> (I was on 'core' at the time, we asked him if we could use his "Open
> Source" branding, he refused us for that reason.)

Ok, that is pretty ludicrous if it's as simple as how many CDs you
sell. Who decided that selling CDs has anything to do with open source
software?

People are strange...

Andy