On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:13:28PM -0600, John Pugh wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 9:14 AM, in message
> <200704190914.15246.slitt@troubleshooters.com>, Steve Litt
> <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 April 2007 07:50, John Pugh wrote:
> >> Legislation is not the answer. Most government is open as open
> >> source/standards. The answer is to form a open source advocacy group
> >> (without affiliation to Bruce Perens)
> >
> > What's wrong with Bruce Perens? I know absolutely nothing about him, so your
> >
> > parenthesized statement (or should I say Peren-thesized statement :-) made me
> > curious.
>
> I don't think there is anything wrong with Bruce Perens, per se. Bruce is just a bit too extreme to be involved too deeply in politics.
Ditto. Bruce Perens is a great asset to the open source developer
community, and should be regarded with respect. He just shouldn't be at
the political forefront of open source advocacy, by any means.
-- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production." - MacUser, November 1990
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