Re: Real men don't attack straw men

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To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@...>
Cc: <boshuk@...>, <misc@...>, <rms@...>, ropers <ropers@...>
Date: Friday, December 14, 2007 - 11:28 am

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Theo de Raadt wrote:

> Richard, you are a total hypocrite. You are in here creating a fuss about

Put another way:

The presence of an OpenBSD port entry for "opera" encourages
the wider use of OpenBSD and all the other free software that implies.

The presence of a port of gcc to Windoze encourages the
development of software, free and otherwise, for Windoze, encouraging
the wider use of Windoze and all the "unfree" software that Windoze
implies.

A good example of the second case is the encouragement to use Windoze
that the gcc-enabled port of Mozilla-* to Windoze has almost certainly
caused. I would use the lousy and dangerous behavior of I.E. as an
advocacy talking-point to lure Windoze users away from their drug.
Mozilla-* has weakened that talking-point.

I like opensource, free software. I'll continue to support the OS
and userland that best advances that cause. That would be OpenBSD.

Dave
--
I told you so.
-- Cassandra

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Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Richard Stallman, (Thu Dec 13, 12:52 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Darrin Chandler, (Thu Dec 13, 2:41 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men , Theo de Raadt, (Thu Dec 13, 2:20 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men , Woodchuck, (Fri Dec 14, 11:28 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Theo de Raadt, (Thu Dec 13, 3:59 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Aaron Glenn, (Thu Dec 13, 7:13 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, michael hamerski, (Thu Dec 13, 8:55 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Gregg Reynolds, (Thu Dec 13, 5:57 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Alicornio, (Thu Dec 13, 7:23 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Thu Dec 13, 6:09 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Greg Thomas, (Thu Dec 13, 9:10 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Darrin Chandler, (Thu Dec 13, 7:22 pm)