[nycbug-talk] Free BSD marketing material

[Dan Langille]

On 18 Mar 2005 at 11:24, Marc Spitzer wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:17:41 -0500, Dan Langille <dan at langille.org> wrote:
> > On 18 Mar 2005 at 11:14, Marc Spitzer wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:09:09 -0500, Dan Langille <dan at langille.org> wrote:
> > > > On 18 Mar 2005 at 11:05, Marc Spitzer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > If you used BSD this could not happen to you:
> > > > > http://gpl-violations.org/ and pick some news items
> > > >
> > > > As an advocate, I prefer to point out the benefits of what I advocate
> > > > rather than point at what I do not advocate and pick at problems.
> > >
> > > "If you use BSD you do not get into the above legal/licence problems"
> > > is not a benefit?
> > 
> > It is not what you say, it is how you say it. You can achieve the
> > same thing without pointing out the problems of others.
> 
> It is not a problem, it is a benefit, just ask them.  And I am firmly
> in the "its what you say" camp.

Ummm, whatever. I guess I need to be explicit here.

You started out by referring to non-GPL compliance as a marketing 
material for FreeBSD.  I suggested the same goal could be achieved by 
advocating the *benefits of BSD (e.g. you can do what you want with 
the code without risk of license infringement) instead of saying 
pointing out the problems of others (e.g. "look, if you use GPL 
software, *THIS* could happen to you!").  

I feel one appraoch is much more professional than the other.  You 
decide which on you want to do and I'll leave you to it.

I think everyone nearly everyone understood my original point; I now 
withdraw from this thread.

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