On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:04:12PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
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> Hi Pawel,
>
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek schrieb am Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:02:47PM +0100:
> > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:38:05PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>
> >> So isn't it rather hypocritical to have a anti-Blob campaign, backed
> >> by projects which embrace the Blob?
>
> > So isn't it rather hypocritical to claim GPL license is bad and BSD
> > license is good and ship operating system with GPLed code?
> > How do you feel about having pro-GPL operating system? Why do you lie to
> > your users by having 'BSD' in operating system's name?
>
> Your analogy does not apply at all:
[...]

Unfortunately you miss the point of my analogy. We have GPLed code. We
would like to get rid of it, but this is not possible just yet. Does
that automatically means that we are pro-GPL? That we lie having 'BSD'
in OS name? No, it means this is one of our goals, it is just not high
priority and we don't feel guilty. This is how it is. The same for
binary-only drivers. We would love to have everything open-source, but
this is not possible currently. We want to move in this direction, of
course, but we also want our users to use their hardware, to have
stable, scalable OS, etc. I'm one of those users with my atheros-based
wireless card I'm using right now. I know what I'm doing. I don't feel
less safe. I don't audit every single driver I use. And I'm happy to use
OS which gives me the choice.

Hearing all those insults from Theo about all those great BSD people is
just sad. Sam Leffler is one of the most valuable open-source developers
in the history of BSD and UNIX in general, keep that in mind. I just
can't belive how easy people forget about all this. Ah, right, this is
called fanaticism.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
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