Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 07:46:08PM -0500, Eliah Kagan wrote: > When you say the world is not made of such extremes, do you mean you > think the long-term effects of something are always unquantifiable? The long term effects of anything are always something left to optimism or pessimism, according

Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 06:18:34PM -0700, L wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:31:00AM -0700, L wrote: >> >>> Hypocrite thoughts are constructed in your mind the way you want to see >>> it.. the same way CULTS want you to s

Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 06:34:49PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > Blah blah blah my feelers are hurt. Do I need to mail you some maxi > pads? Now that you mention it, shortly after this idiotic flame I started receiving "tons" of spam. I wonder if they're related... Rui -- Or is it? Today is

Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:31:00AM -0700, L wrote: > Hypocrite thoughts are constructed in your mind the way you want to see > it.. the same way CULTS want you to see that their cult is right about > EVERYTHING and every other religion and church is wrong. You seem to abuse the word hypocrisy. N

Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:28:19AM -0800, Ray Percival wrote: > don't like you. You think we rank up there with baby killers. I will NEVER > understand how that works so just FOAD and we can all be happy. I think that "ranking" you mention is 100% your interpretation. :) Rui -- Or is it? Today

Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 12:34:45PM -0600, Gilles Chehade wrote: > > > According to YOU, it is okay to have emacs and gcc run on a proprietary > > > system as it allows more people to run free software. How is it that it > > > is wrong to allow more people to run a free system by giving them links >

Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 01:51:22PM -0500, Eliah Kagan wrote: > On Jan 5, 2008 12:53 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > 4) FYI I think the wine project is counter-productive as it enables > >running non-free software on free software operating systems, and as > >suc

Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Oh, the real troll just arrived (one more list where he get's to the kill file). On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 07:52:34PM +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > On Jan 5, 2008 6:53 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > I'm not from the FSF. >

Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 08:47:16AM -0600, Gilles Chehade wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:53:30AM +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 05:49:42PM -0600, Gilles Chehade wrote: > > > Why didn't you answer my mail Rui ? > > > You are a

Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 05:49:42PM -0600, Gilles Chehade wrote: > Why didn't you answer my mail Rui ? > You are a troll. Either I did and you missed it, or it wasn't the answer you'd expect or I found it so irrelevant it didn't even raise any bell. Anyways, most of your emails have been so rude t

Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 02:49:45PM -0800, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Jan 4, 2008 2:31 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I find even more hysterical is your lack of english comprehension, > > for what I said is that restrictions against com

Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 02:26:12PM -0800, Ted Unangst wrote: > On Jan 4, 2008 1:22 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Otherwise why should he repeatedly say some thin that is not > > > proprietary as proprietary even after being inform

Re: Richard Stallman...

2008-01-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:35:16PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Could we all please stop responding to his emails as well as emails > from trollers like Rui Seabra? F.Y. You are the troll. Rui -- Keep the Lasagna flying! Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 4th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3174 + No mat

Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 05:44:59PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > :-) that was to the guy who called you a troll right? > I said perhaps you are a paid FSF mercenary or as you accused me > "delusional" :-) I wish I was paid to only work on Free Software, I'd be much more productive. Rui -- Today

Re: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

2008-01-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:19:03AM -0600, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > i couldn't help but notice his initials are RMSS, not so far from RMS. > perhaps this is a nome de plume for that other weaselly contrarian, mr. > stallman. Yet you couldn't help notice the relation with the name as being more

Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:56:03AM +0100, Karl Sjodahl - dunceor wrote: > This is a unmoderated list and unsubscribed people can mail to it. If one doesn't want to hear what outsiders want to say, then perhaps posting should be restricted to list members. Rui -- This statement is false. Today i

Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 07:08:12PM -0700, L wrote: > That is an insult! Why are you being so mean to Marco? Right, his extreme insults are meaningless and unprovocative. > And why are you being so mean to me too? I read this list too! > You are insulting me! Right, did the hat fit? Because I sai

Re: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra

2008-01-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 08:20:50AM +0200, Dusty wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra only ever contributes to this list when its in a > flame war, and always to take up a contrary point of view. He has proved > only one thing. Trolls do exist and their primary form of communication is >

Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 02:15:08PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > On Jan 4, 2008 1:03 AM, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rui Miguel Silva is continually making you guys remove > > from the cc's of your messages. > > Who knows? > Perhaps He gets Paid for it, and for this violent defense

Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:00:55PM +, Miod Vallat wrote: > > > Rui Miguel Silva is continually making you guys remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > from the cc's of your messages. > > > > FYI, I continually remove people from the CC on mailing-list posts. > > Yet you have no idea whether these peop

Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-03 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:34:24PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > It would be nice if people would stop defending non defensible > hypocritical positions. His arguments are a misleading hyperbole. Your attitude is also indefensible and ostentiously hypocritical, with a rudeness that only "adds"

Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-03 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:33:26PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva is continually making you guys remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] > from the cc's of your messages. FYI, I continually remove people from the CC on mailing-list posts. I consider it rude to receive duplicate email. > If you

Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-03 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
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 installa

Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-03 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:05:37PM -0500, Stuart VanZee wrote: > Wow... it is incredibly telling that you chose a game, a pretty > obscure one at that as far as I can tell, to base your argument on. > > The world will fall because OpenBSD "recommends" that people > install a game... a game that is

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-03 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:22:35AM -0700, L wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:04:44AM -0600, Gilles Chehade wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:53:26PM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >>> >>>> Sin

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-03 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:04:44AM -0600, Gilles Chehade wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:53:26PM +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > Since I'm (at least) smart enough not to install proprietary software, > > I don't have a strong problem with it, but for someon

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-03 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 10:38:08AM -0500, Stuart VanZee wrote: > >From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra > > > >He's not labelling OpenBSD non-free, just non-free-friendly because some > >non-free are distributed in the ports site. > > And yet, you still don't hav

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2008-01-03 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:19:38PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > Nobody out here is going to listen to what you're going to say, and > you are going to go on and on about how you were justified in labeling > OpenBSD as not compliant with your interpretation of the word "free", > which we don't giv

Re: OpenBSD supported servers ?

2007-12-26 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 07:48:26AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > Who is we? Right, of course... I won't do it alone, because to do it alone all I have needed is quite well served by http://www.armorlogic.com/openbsd_information_server_compatibility_list.html But apparently there are more peop

Re: OpenBSD supported servers ?

2007-12-20 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 11:53:37AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/12/20 11:28, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:37:34PM +0530, Selva Raj wrote: > > > I am looking for a HP or IBM server which can run OpenBSD Operating System &g

Re: OpenBSD supported servers ?

2007-12-20 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:37:34PM +0530, Selva Raj wrote: > I am looking for a HP or IBM server which can run OpenBSD Operating System > out of the box? > > Any suggestions will be great useful to me. Dear Selva, The following list has been useful for me, but I can't make any promises about it'

Re: rhetorical strategies

2007-12-17 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
(chomp chomp) nice, thanks. More please :D On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 10:33:05AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > Hey you said something that isnt complete bs! you get a cookie now! > > 1kg == 1000g! awesome! > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:44:00PM +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wr

Re: rhetorical strategies

2007-12-17 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:30:32AM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > blah blah blah > > As usual you keep repeating what you said before but it _still_ does not > make it so. It's not that you disagree that 1000g = 1Kg, it's how rudely you can bash those who agree so. Rui -- Fnord. Today is Swee

Re: rhetorical strategies

2007-12-17 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 06:52:56AM -0700, L wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:17:46PM -0600, Gregg Reynolds wrote: >>> For GPL-licensed software I recommend the term "covenant(ed) >>> software". So-called "free softw

Re: rhetorical strategies

2007-12-17 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:17:46PM -0600, Gregg Reynolds wrote: > For GPL-licensed software I recommend the term "covenant(ed) > software". So-called "free software", as rms uses the term, is > totally dependent on the GPL, which leverages the State's monopoly on > violence to compel modifiers o

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:54:47AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > Richard, your pants are full of hypocritical poo. You too. I still remember cheering when I read http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/ports/0108/msg00460.html * From: Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:30:28PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: > while we do provide a free operating system, > http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html > makes it total clear that you are a hypocrite and a liar. And makes it total clear that you are the hypocrite and a liar. Choice quotes from

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:59:27PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Richard, you are a total hypocrite. You are in here creating a fuss about > > our software, saying it is non-free, when you are doing exactly the same > > thing yourself. > > Please see > >http://www.gnu.org/software/emac

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-11 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:49:34PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote: > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 14:00:43 Richard Stallman wrote: > > Why don't you ask Theo, whom you once praised, about OpenBSD? > > > > Because he tends to be unfriendly. > > Now *that* I find humorous. > > I find it Kafka-esque,

Re: About non-free software in OpenBSD

2007-12-09 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:57:53PM -0600, Travers Buda wrote: > Yes this is quite silly. Stallman insists on "free" software, and > distributions are only acceptable if they shove that software down > the users throats in the stead of something else, thus restricting > the users freedom. illegal

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-06 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 02:23:41PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > blah blah blah > > have you ever wondered why openbsd doesn't do binary updates? I'm not talking about updates, I can read C. > maybe you are now going to be able to figure out why we don't need > complex signing mechanisms. You

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-06 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 12:37:19PM +0800, Lars Hansson wrote: > On Dec 6, 2007 2:46 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Come on... twice a year and get the benefit of not being excluded from > > company policies which require digital signature o

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:23:28AM -0800, Ted Unangst wrote: > On 12/5/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Come on... twice a year and get the benefit of not being excluded from > > company policies which require digital signature of software downl

Re: Code signing in OpenBSD

2007-12-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:59:31AM -0500, Nick Guenther wrote: > > I'm surprised that OpenBSD (the most secure OS I know of) > > does not use it, that's all I'm saying. I also thought there would be a real > > reason for not doing so and there may in fact be and I may just be unaware > > of it. >

Re: License Violation - ksh

2007-12-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:37:53PM -0700, Bob Beck wrote: > * Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-03 06:19]: > > > No harm done just stupidity perpetuated. Kind of like fox news. > > Dunno about "no harm done" there marco - Saying fox news doesn't do > any harm is like saying Joes

Re: CARP problem

2007-10-23 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:10:32AM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > What happens: > 1. I boot frw1, it becomes MASTER on all carps -> good. > 2. I boot frw2, it becomes BACKUP on all carps except carp0, which > becomes MASTER -> bad. > > Any ideas? Do you have pass quick for carp and pfsync *befo

Re: carp devices master/backup behavior

2007-09-28 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:44:53PM +0200, Erich wrote: > hi, > > i have successfully setup a carp setup with 10 carp devices. on box is > master and another box is backup, so if the master fails the backup box > takes over. > i have sysctl net.inet.carp.preempt=1 and the backup box announces wit

Re: OBSD's perspective on SELinux

2007-09-24 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:49:20AM -0700, Can E. Acar wrote: > In security, complex != good. Yes, which is one of the reasons I personally believe Visa's PCI is an extortion sham. However, some hugely influential entities happen to require those complexities, and no reason on the world will convi

Re: OBSD's perspective on SELinux

2007-09-24 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Hi, On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 04:31:22PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:54:06PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:47:46PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > > > OBSD is UNIX, .. SELinux is Linux. If you want a secure, effici

Re: digitally signed distribution (was: OBSD's perspective on SELinux)

2007-09-23 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:35:54AM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:54:06PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > Remember: OpenBSD still doesn't have a digitally signed code distribution, > > and in some places that means it can't enter! St

Re: OBSD's perspective on SELinux

2007-09-23 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:47:46PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote: > OBSD is UNIX, .. SELinux is Linux. If you want a secure, efficient, > compact OS done by folks you can trust and actually talk to, use OBSD; if > you want 'fairly secure Linux' [which has had thousands of hand in it > including NSA, a

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-16 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 06:34:03PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > As ironic as it may seem, with today being the long anticipated release > of the very first working decompiler, the world of open source drivers > is going to get very interesting in the near future. In a few hours, > possibly days,

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-16 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:34:36PM -0400, William Boshuck wrote: > The evidence indicates that Rui is not, in fact, a human > being, but the latest (and possibly the most impressive > to date) application of the Dada Engine. I can mail you some biological evidence, if you want ;) *giggle* Rui -

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 03:53:02PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:33:02PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:25:38PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > > > > I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
via the swwitches. > > By the way, there is a difference between reading and writing. > But then, you seem to actually be THAT incompetent. > > > -----Original Message- > > From: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:25:29AM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: > Damien Miller wrote: > > To: Rui Miguel Silva Seabra > > Cc: J.C. Roberts; misc@openbsd.org > > Subject: Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words > > > > On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 09:54:10PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without the freedom to > > change a program because he has no access to the source code. > >

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:11:38AM -0500, Tony Abernethy wrote: > > Good luck doing so without any source code. > Teehee Teehee. No luck required. > It does however take a wee bit of skill and competence. > Actually, for exacting work, the source is a liability. > The source tends to make assorted

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:58:36PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > > You seem uneducated about how powerless someone is without the freedom to > > change a program because he has no access to the source code. > > That is only because you are uneducated in the art of assembly and more > importantly t

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 05:29:31PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > >I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has the > >freedom to modify it. Go ahead. Prove me that it doesn't allow some users > >to loose freedo

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 10:09:41AM -0700, Greg Thomas wrote: > On 9/14/07, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:49:33AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > > > | I don't establish *anything*. It's in the preamble. > >

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-15 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 03:25:38PM -0700, J.C. Roberts wrote: > > I'd love to see how an user who gets a modified binary version has > > the freedom to modify it. Go ahead. Prove me that it doesn't allow > > some users to loose freedom... > > Hello again Rui, > > the US. Over here, if you own a c

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 02:29:44PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:24:25PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > | > On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > | > > > | > > The spirit of the GNU GPL is to maintain freedom for

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:50:45PM +, Sebastien Carlier wrote: > Your point is that the BSD license is a "wrong" because it gives people > too much freedom. You just stated this again, even more clearly than in > your earlier message. No, I never said the BSD license is wrong, you said that,

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:27:51AM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:49:33AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > >> | I don't establish *anything*. It's in the preamble. > >> > >> Your exact words

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:39:10AM +, Sebastien Carlier wrote: > Rui, > > On 2007-09-14 11:13:11, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > > The spirit of the GNU GPL is to maintain freedom for all users. > > You don't seem to get the fact that the BSD licen

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:49:33AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > | I don't establish *anything*. It's in the preamble. > > Your exact words are "that's in the preamble, which establishes the > spirit" (I left them in my reply so you can see for yourself). So the > spirit is established. I can play

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:53:23AM -0400, Tony Abernethy wrote: > GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE >Version 2, June 1991 > > Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA > Everyone is permitted to cop

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 01:29:43AM +0200, Reiner Jung wrote: > what have this to do with Microsoft? I assume nothing. Don't let us mix up > this topic. It's an adaptation of an expression, it means don't bother me, go see if I'm at (someplace I definitely am not). > The question here is not Micro

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:12:55AM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:25:44PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > | > | While it may be seen as distateful to make modifications to BSD-licensed > | > | code, and place those modifications under the GPL or a

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-14 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
lol it's always bullshit when it's not convenient to you, right? On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:28:12PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > Now if you'd advice people with something better than bullshit it might > be worth it. You have proven time and time again that you have no grasp > whatsoever on cop

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-13 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:50:31AM +0200, Reiner Jung wrote: > as you are not a lawyer, you should stop to interpret any law, copyright > questions or give any legal advice from your own interpretation. Go see if I'm employed by Microsoft, will you? It's in every citizen's duty to know about the

Re: The Atheros story in much fewer words

2007-09-13 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
> | While it may be seen as distateful to make modifications to BSD-licensed > | code, and place those modifications under the GPL or a similar "share > | alike" license, based upon what I understand of copyright law, it's > | perfectly legal. Even though BSD-style licenses are compatible with the

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Hi Sunnz, On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 04:32:20AM +1000, Sunnz wrote: > > If the person chooses to use the GNU GPL they have to respect the GNU GPL's > > conditions, not the BSD ones. > > GNU GPL, however, only grants the right to re-distribute (under > certain conditions), but not re-license, right?

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:41:04PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: > > I think that if *alternative* means both at the same time in any > > reputable dictionary (legal or not), > > Show those. Besides this, it is WRONG. > > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alternative > > Hence the meaning of ALTERNATI

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:37:00AM -0500, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote: > On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:49, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:40:53PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >> > Most dictionaries I had at my hand define alternative as choice

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-04 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:53:53AM +1000, Sunnz wrote: > 2007/9/3, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Then a choice of licenses is offered to the receiver. If he only uses the > > software, neither affects him, but if he distributes, he either does it > >

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-03 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:35:18AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote: > The basis of your argument appears to be that you interpret the last > paragraph above (starting with "Alternatively") as explicit permission > to replace all of the previous material (starting with "Redistribution > and use") with th

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:15:27PM +0200, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > * Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the > ^ (all line) > > * GNU General Public License ("GPL&quo

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 03:25:13PM +0300, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote: > > You may, of course, license your own contributions (that are significant > > enough to be copyrightable themselves) under only one license. > So what license will the derived work (consisted of dual-licensed base > code and GPL-on

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:07:59PM +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > Hello! > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 10:59:17PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > >On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:39:28AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >> > In the case of the later 3 files,

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:12:18PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote in the other one: > > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:32:05AM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > >> Because of the choice between licenses you can either choose to adhere > >> to the GP

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:05:09PM +0200, Hannah Schroeter wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 06:19:01PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > >Hi, > > >In order to make my mind about this subject... > > >You're complaining solely of the changes in files: > &

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:15:51AM +0200, Siegbert Marschall wrote: > > Its "alternatively" not "at the same time" > NO. You are using the word out of context, put it back in there and it > is simple: > > * Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the > * GNU General Publ

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:32:05AM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Because of the choice between licenses you can either choose to adhere > to the GPL (thus forcing you to open up your changes) ^^^ That is false, only if software is distributed. >

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:17:40AM +0200, Siegbert Marschall wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:55:34PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >> > The license is not an alternative. The alternative is between two > >> licenses. > >> > > >> > The moment one chooses one them... it's that one henceforth. >

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:46:30PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:55:34PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > The license is not an alternative. The alternative is between two > > > > licenses. > > > > > > > > The moment one chooses one them... it's that one henceforth

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:55:34PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > The license is not an alternative. The alternative is between two licenses. > > > > The moment one chooses one them... it's that one henceforth. > > And... you are a judge? Theo, be as unreasonable as you want. The copyright not

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:56:44PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:29:11PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > > Yes. The *rights you received* are the central point of the question. > > > > Which did the user receive? The BSD granted

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:40:53PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Most dictionaries I had at my hand define alternative as choices. You can > > get > > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/alternative > > > > Noun > > alternative (plural alternatives) > > 1. A situation which allows a choic

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 04:08:46PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:39:28AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > > In the case of the later 3 files, their copyright notice says: > > > > "at your choice" you may distribute under the terms of the BSD > > > > lic

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:39:28AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > In the case of the later 3 files, their copyright notice says: > > "at your choice" you may distribute under the terms of the BSD > > license or under the terms of the GNU GPL v2 > > > > So if they chose to distribute those

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Hi, In order to make my mind about this subject... You're complaining solely of the changes in files: * drivers/net/wireless/ath5k.h * drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_hw.c * drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_hw.h * drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_regdom.c * drivers/net/wire

Re: OT Strange Punishment

2007-08-29 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 08:32:25PM -0300, Rafael Almeida wrote: > The main problem I see here is the government incentivating the > purshase of Microsoft product. It's kinda dumb paying the guy pay to a > company that has nothing to do witht he whole thing as a punishment > for your crimes. It woul

Re: Is there any bug with bnx which would cause vlans fail?

2007-07-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 02:36:57PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:04:29AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2007/07/10 10:12, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:50:31AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > &

Re: Is there any bug with bnx which would cause vlans fail?

2007-07-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:04:29AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/07/10 10:12, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:50:31AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > Have you tried a -current snapshot at all? > > > sys/dev/pci/if

Re: Is there any bug with bnx which would cause vlans fail?

2007-07-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:50:31AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Have you tried a -current snapshot at all? > sys/dev/pci/if_bnx.c 1.49 may be relevant. > > description: > > revision 1.49 > date: 2007/05/21 10:05:03; author: reyk; state: Exp; lines: +4 -3 > fix b

Re: Is there any bug with bnx which would cause vlans fail?

2007-07-10 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:28:51PM +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > In the switch: > interface GigabitEthernet0/3 > switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q > switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,101,1280 > switchport mode trunk > no ip address > > interface GigabitE

Is there any bug with bnx which would cause vlans fail?

2007-07-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Hi, In the switch: interface GigabitEthernet0/3 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,101,1280 switchport mode trunk no ip address interface GigabitEthernet0/6 switchport access vlan 101 no ip address In machine A: cat /etc/hostname.bnx0 up cat /etc/hostname.

Re: Intel Core 2

2007-06-28 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Thanks very much! On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:24:01AM +0200, Johan P. Lindstrvm wrote: > rough translation from swedish to english of: ...

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