To copy someone else's treatment of one of my mails... :) On Dec 17, 2007 1:15 AM, David H. Lynch Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No one has told you what must or must not do. > This whole thread started as a knee jerk reaction to Richard's > to a very short remark by Richard on BSDTalk where to paraphrase he said > that he was sorry that he could not recommend and of the BSD's > despite many > positive qualities because they do not conform to his standards for > treatment of > non-free software.
OK, so far, so good. > > The OpenBSD group chose to take that as a deliberately spiteful > missle targeting them. OK, maybe. > Maybe that is because OpenBSD is the closet to meeting Richard's > standards, > Maybe it is because, my reading of most of this thread is URL's to > non-free software are a bad > thing, but we are going to keep doing them anyway, because accepting > that they are not > consistent with our values might give Richard an occasion to gloat > and we would rather > insert a binary blob from Redmond than admit that Richard might be > the slightest right about anything. You went off the tracks there. OpenBSD is *NOT* about blobs. And, unlike linux or anyone else, OpenBSD does not even sign distribution agreements for distributing firmware. -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0&feature=related
