On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:30:44PM +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:23:21PM -0500, William Boshuck wrote: > > Richard Stallman referred to certain URLs in certain Makefiles > > in the ports tree---not the collection of packages, after (in > > the interview which indirectly prompted this thread) confusing > > OpenBSD's ports tree with its installation system. He did not > > refer to the packages collection in the statement in question. > > I seem to have read somewhere he asked for an adenda clarifying the > situation, was it referred to these? I seem to have understood it to be > the packages distribution.
He should have researched this himself instead of spouting horseshit. > > > > > This discussion all started because Mr. Stallman very publicly > > > > stated that OpenBSD was non-free and distributed non-free software > > > > in it's ports tree. > > > > > > He didn't say OpenBSD was non-free, but that it distributed non-free > > > Software. > > > > He said that it "include[s] in [its] installation system ... non-free > > software". > > I'm willing to bet he got bad information or missed the "ports/packages" > components. People ain't computers. Time to grow up and take responsibility for one's actions. Assuming he actually "got" bad information don't you think he should have spent 3 minutes of his time to figure reality out? Why are you giving him a free out of jail card? He does this over and over again; is it truly just a mistake? I think not. > > Rui > > -- > Wibble. > Today is Pungenday, the 3rd day of Chaos in the YOLD 3174 > + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown > + Whatever you do will be insignificant, > | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi > + So let's do it...?
