[SWLUG] Alan's open letter

[Telsa Gwynne]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 04:40:44PM +0100 or thereabouts, Gareth Lewis wrote:
> I am speaking(typing) personally and not in any official capacity here !

Yeah, I can see that with that email address you might need to point
that out :) 

> Why ?   well,  if the ONLY option is to have the software
> directive in its 'keep roughly the status-quo' form or not have
> any  directive at all,  its better for the OS community to have
> the software directive.   

I don't understand this. We had no directive before. Why is 
having the directive better than having none?

Telsa