On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:28:24PM +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote: > > You are talking about unrelated matters, and mixing our goals with the > > ones of your own community. > > > > I represent neither FSF nor OpenBSD. I probably represent the > community which listens to the propagandas put across by both but > wants to fight back against false marketing and for the right things > TM. >
Then you are misunderstanding OpenBSD's goals which are clearly stated at the link I provided you and that you obviously failed to read. > > OpenBSD is free software that contains no blob, no closed-source object > > and that can be *fully* redistributed with no strings attached. You can > > buy the cd and do whatever you want as long as you retain the copyright > > on the files in it. You can take any part of OpenBSD and look at source > > for it, nothing is obfuscated. You can build a full OpenBSD system from > > the sources on the cvs. That's it. > > > > Yawn. And it makes the flash installation faster after you've built it > from the CVS. > We do not provide flash, we provide a Makefile which will allow someone to install flash if he wants to. This Makefile is not even part of the system and needs to be fetched manually by the user. This is *NOT* against goals, which you do not want to read. Please stop making uninformed claims, read the goals and policy page which are accessible from the very home page of the project. When you do so, you can freely point us where we are in breach with our claims, until then you are just trolling. > > What you do with it is not of our matter and we do not prevent you from > > installing a proprietary software on top of it. This is your call, what > > you do with what we provide you is none of our business, as long as you > > do not remove the copyright notice. > > > > My call: all lies and ego. > You failed to read two pages and to point out where we are going against our own claims. My call: troll. -- Gilles Chehade
