Hi
About the ports tree, maybe you are right and OpenBSD should go kick out

the possibly 50 ports that you have a problem with.
Now, about BSD/GPL that's an other story. But that doesn't mean we can't

learn from each other and help each other.
I hope it has to do Richards efforts on the GNU/Linux side of the

open-source world that even Ubuntu works on a completely free edition

(Gobuntu) nowadays.
OpenBSD "refuses to accept it's users being forced into depending on

vendor binaries" and pushes people to "send a message that open support

for hardware matters". Unix is becoming mainstream again. You should all

work together at educating new people.
Kind regards,
Tom
Richard Stallman wrote:

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> It looks like some people are having a discussion in which they

> construct views they would find outrageous, attribute them to me, and

> then try to blame me for them.

>

> For such purposes, knowledge of my actual views might be superfluous,

> even inconvenient.  However, if anyone wants to know what I do think,

> I've stated it in various articles in http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/.

> In particular, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/freedom-or-power.html.

>

> One question particularly relevant for this list is why I don't

> recommend OpenBSD.  It is not about what the system allows.  (Any

> general purpose system allows doing anything at all.)  It is about

> what the system suggests to the user.

>

> Since I consider non-free software to be unethical and antisocial, I

> think it would be wrong for me to recommend it to others.  Therefore,

> if a collection of software contains (or suggests installation of)

> some non-free program, I do not recommend it.  The systems I recommend

> are therefore those that do not contain (or suggest installation of)

> non-free software.

>

>>From what I have heard, OpenBSD does not contain non-free software

> (though I am not sure whether it contains any non-free firmware

> blobs).  However, its ports system does suggest non-free programs, or

> at least so I was told when I looked for some BSD variant that I could

> recommend.  I therefore exercise my freedom of speech by not including

> OpenBSD in the list of systems that I recommend to the public.

>

> I could recommend OpenBSD privately with a clear conscience to someone

> I know will not install those non-free programs, but it is rare that I

> am asked for such recommendations, and I know of no practical reason

> to prefer OpenBSD to gNewSense.

>

> The fact that OpenBSD is not a variant of GNU is not ethically

> important.  If OpenBSD did not suggest non-free programs, I would

> recommend it along with the free GNU/Linux distros.