On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:48:46AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 07:09:09AM -0400, Nick Holland wrote:

> > Free software: It's all about the price.

> > The rest of the talk about "freedom", etc. is just trying to keep

> > them from looking like cheap, greedy bastards.

> > At least for an awful lot of 'em.

>

> I have to point out that I have been told on this list by a GPL fan that

> the dictionary definition of freedom isn't correct.  He was so friendly

> to ask me who the hell I was to tell him what freedom means.  Freedom

> for him did mean free + random rules.

>

> For all the great things the GPL has done its followers really could do

> some reading on that whole "definition of words" thing.

>

> This copyright thing is a complete debacle and shows just how

> disingenuous some of the linux people are.  There is no way I buy that

> the lawyers involved do not understand what they are doing.  As a fan of

> the following quote: "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately

> explained by incompetence" -- Napoleon Bonaparte

> I do not buy that the FSF (yes I said it) lawyers do not understand

> copyright law.  Nobody with a degree in law is that stupid therefore I

> have to conclude that there is malice involved.

>

> The FSF should take a deep breath and apologize to Reyk, apologize to

> Theo, apologize to OpenBSD and apologize to the open source community at

> large.

> 

While reading this I got a mail that OpenSolaris released the adapted

version of our malo(4) driver.
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/malo/
Second sentence on the page is:

This driver is based on the source code from OpenBSD, and is provided

under the same BSD-type License.
So companies are bad and only "true" open source is good. Ja ja, sure.
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:wq Claudio