On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:50:47PM +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote:
> On Jan 6, 2008 10:41 PM, Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:52:18PM +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote:
> > | > Perhaps you're *USING* these 4 files to install the adobe flash player
> > | > on your machine (your example a little bit later in this mail seems to
> > | > indicate you have at least installed it). That's non-free software
> > | > you've installed, but you are free to do so. Then, to you, those four
> > | > small files are not so useless, are they ?
> > | >
> > |
> > | Okay, I didn't install it. But it's like saying 'There is no proof
> > | that the Makefiles won't work unless at least one person has installed
> > | them and verified". In any case, I put forward the argument that the
> > | Makefiles are useless because no single person has reported a
> > | successful install with them. BooHoo!
> >
> > You are making an argument that Makefiles are useless when we are
> > discussing the free-ness of OpenBSD. It doesn't have a lot to do with
> > the subject at hand (again...), but there you go.
> 
> You argued Makefiles are FREE. See ma, no .so in cvs.. etc. Now you
> use ftp and download PowerPoint to test if the system works, and say:
> hey. it's a free tool and I downloaded non-free. But just testing. But
> it's a free tool, like uhm. make and Makefile s ... so I guess
> everyone can use it to simply test if the non-free can be downloaded
> with free tools. Is that what you're getting at, about the FREE
> makefiles and their usefulness? Ah, okay; I understand you.

Makefiles *are* free.  And yes exactly, no .so in cvs WHICH WOULDN'T BE
FREE.  Also no .so on the CDs because that would be, you know, NOT
LEGAL.

If anything is a free tool it is you.

> 
> >
> >
> > I did, I tested the above procedure before sending my mail to the
> > list. Doesn't mean I've used it, but if you think it's shameful to
> > prove you wrong, I think that says more about you than about me.
> >
> 
> You're not proving me wrong. Whom are you kidding? You need to come to
> terms with yourself.

He did about 34958340958439058 times now.

> 
> >
> > You still have not shown any file in the OpenBSD cvs repository that
> > is not free. You make gratuitous analogies that are completely
> > irrelevant - try to stick to the subject, no analogies necessary.
> > There's no cigarettes in OpenBSD, it's all free bits of software etc.
> >
> 
> Free bits of software which can download non-free bits = Harmless bits
> of paper and tobacco which when lit and inhaled will cause cancer.
> 
> If you feel the analogy is painful, tough luck bro.

It isn't painful it is dumb.  Your analogies are possibly worse than
your arguments.

> 
> I'm through talking to you here. I'm not going to reply to your posts again.

Great!!!!

> 
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> Karthik
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