Re: It's time to talk about Free Software

To: Tom Lear <tom@trap.mtview.ca.us>
Cc: Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org>, theDon@cs.ucc.ie, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Brian Sheehan <sheehan@wisdom.ucc.ie>, Donal McCarthy <mccarthd@wisdom.ucc.ie>, Alan Hamilton <hamilton@wisdom.ucc.ie>
Subject: Re: It's time to talk about Free Software
From: John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 1999 16:02:15 -0700
Message-id: <[🔎] m3btiqf154.fsf@homey.physics.arizona.edu>
In-reply-to: Tom Lear's message of "Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:08:11 -0800 (PST)"
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96LJ1.1b7.990219085708.1068A-100000@bug.trap.mtview.ca.us>

Tom Lear <tom@trap.mtview.ca.us> writes:


> If we abandon it we'll lose much respectability to suits that we've gained
> in recent years.  If we let Eric have it it may become polluted so bad
> that it does nothing but harm us. 

	Does anyone have concrete info on how ESR is corrupting Open Source ?
Is it just that O'Rielly is making a fortune on propietary books ? 

-- 
John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ     http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

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