Karthik Kumar wrote: > On Jan 5, 2008 11:20 PM, William Boshuck > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:58:47PM +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote: > > > > On another hand we are not GNU/GPL and we don't mind > our users installing > > > > non free software if it is what they want. The FAQ is > where this needs to > > > > be documented for users to get their job done faster. > > > > > > > > > > If you don't mind users using non-free software, you shouldn't be > > > putting the 'Free. ' in 'Free. Functional. Secure.' > > > > The word 'free' is there because OpenBSD is free. It is not > > there because developers mind or don't mind users doing this > > or that. > > > > You're missing the point why somebody is calling OpenBSD non-free. Or > supposedly why emacs runs on non-free. > > > > ; You shouldn't be > > > fighting those blob vendors and call them nasty names; Rather, > > > probably document how to use such drivers and firmware 'faster'. > > > > Should you wish to inform yourself, there are a number of posts > > in the list archives explaining various specific reasons why the > > OpenBSD developers are against blobs. Theo, in particular, wrote > > at least one rather short and very cogent message explaining the > > reasons. You should look towards the beginning of the threads, > > because later on you are more likely to see Theo losing patience > > with respondents who did not read the original posts (carefully > > enough, or perhaps not at all). > > > > Here is one: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-Marc > h/081313.html > > Notice how Theo talks about "because their firmware images were not > free enough to ship in our releases"
in context: "because their firmware images were not free enough to ship in our releases, and after 6 months of wasting our time and being stalemated, we informed Qlogic and our user community (as well as YOUR user community) that we were removing the support for their controllers. A few days later the firmware was free." Are you complaining because Theo actually accomplished something?
