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| DATE | 2003-05-20 |
| FROM | Richard Stallman
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] Re: A thought
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From owner-hangout-desteny-at-mrbrklyn.com Tue May 20 22:50:01 2003 Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id h4L2o1lu004665 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 22:50:01 -0400 Received: (from mdom-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h4L2o1pd004664 for hangout-desteny; Tue, 20 May 2003 22:50:01 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: www2.mrbrklyn.com: mdom set sender to owner-hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com using -f Received: from www2.mrbrklyn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id h4L2o0lu004658 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 22:50:00 -0400 Received: (from ruben-at-localhost) by www2.mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id h4L2o0iC004657 for hangout-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com; Tue, 20 May 2003 22:50:00 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org [199.232.76.164]) by mrbrklyn.com (8.12.3/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id h4L1qflu004072 for ; Tue, 20 May 2003 21:52:41 -0400 Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19IIpI-0000pi-Ot; Tue, 20 May 2003 21:55:32 -0400 From: Richard Stallman To: bruce-at-perens.com (Bruce Perens) CC: bruce-at-perens.com, jdave23-at-express56.com, hangout-at-nylxs.com In-reply-to: <20030520002328.D72E64398-at-server.perens.com> (bruce-at-perens.com) Subject: [hangout] Re: A thought References: <20030520002328.D72E64398-at-server.perens.com> Message-Id: Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 21:55:32 -0400 Sender: owner-hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: Richard Stallman List: New Yorker GNU Linux Scene Admin: To unsubscribe send unsubscribe name-at-domian.com in the body to hangout-request-at-www2.mrbrklyn.com X-Evolution: 000002f1-0000 X-Keywords: X-UID: 13868 Status: RO Content-Length: 1240 Lines: 29
> So how about mending some fences with the folks who insisted that > "fairness" toward Microsoft is always a bad policy, and that advocacy > groups should be accountable to their constituents? Next time, maybe > Ruben will dress up in support of one of your causes!
Well, I noticed that the executive director of the FSF was there in normal clothing, and the director of FSF Europe, too.
The FSF does not approve of the way that conference was run, and therefore did not participate. Brad went as an individual, to meet other attendees. It does not indicate any support from the FSF for the conference practices.
The biggest news story from the conference was an announcement by Microsoft, about software that is not free and not even open source. You were had.
The next conference, in Europe, is to be called "free software and open source" I am told. That's a satisfactory handling of that issue. But I don't think I should participate if Microsoft will be invited to do anything other than participate in an explicitly adversarial debate.
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