On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:48:46AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:09:09AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > > Free software: It's all about the price. > > The rest of the talk about "freedom", etc. is just trying to keep > > them from looking like cheap, greedy bastards. > > At least for an awful lot of 'em. > > I have to point out that I have been told on this list by a GPL fan that > the dictionary definition of freedom isn't correct. He was so friendly > to ask me who the hell I was to tell him what freedom means. Freedom > for him did mean free + random rules. > > For all the great things the GPL has done its followers really could do > some reading on that whole "definition of words" thing. > > This copyright thing is a complete debacle and shows just how > disingenuous some of the linux people are. There is no way I buy that > the lawyers involved do not understand what they are doing. As a fan of > the following quote: "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately > explained by incompetence" -- Napoleon Bonaparte > I do not buy that the FSF (yes I said it) lawyers do not understand > copyright law. Nobody with a degree in law is that stupid therefore I > have to conclude that there is malice involved. > > The FSF should take a deep breath and apologize to Reyk, apologize to > Theo, apologize to OpenBSD and apologize to the open source community at > large. >
While reading this I got a mail that OpenSolaris released the adapted version of our malo(4) driver. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/malo/ Second sentence on the page is: This driver is based on the source code from OpenBSD, and is provided under the same BSD-type License. So companies are bad and only "true" open source is good. Ja ja, sure. -- :wq Claudio
