Post on Beer with Bruce Perens (Was: What are consequences (the lack of freedom on the USA))

[Andy Green]

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On Thursday 09 October 2003 18:35, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 11:16, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> > Are you sure you guys are looking at the right list?

> True - I posted it to fedora-list because I thought it was more

Wasn't subscribed to fedora-list, that explains it.

Reading it he'll be happy that OOo1.1 is in Fedora.

On his problems with Redhat, he has much more experience than me, but 
it seems to me its all GPL in the end.  Sometimes GPL projects can 
benefit from a strong leadership  direction to avoid degeneration 
into bunfights.  If too many people get unhappy there'll be a 
Mandrake Fedora or something (probably 'beret').  Redhat does have an 
influence, for example with backing Gnome so hard vs KDE.

Something else to bear in mind is that when he underlines the 
importance of OO, it has been funded by Sun, it has come from 
Investor money -> GPL.  Fedora is coming the same way through RHAT.  
So although he's right with his cautions the flipside is that the 
funding can do great GPL things that can't be snatched back.

Wish I could've sat there and drunk beer and rapped with you guys.

- -Andy
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