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

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Date: Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 1:48 pm

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:05:37PM -0500, Stuart VanZee wrote:

Because they are such pitiful cases, they could be easily removed and
remove Stallman's objections to list OpenBSD at the recommended Free
Software operating systems, right? More promotion of OpenBSD would be
good, right?

Stopping this childish-tantrum regarding the FSF would also be very much
more productive.

> This discussion all started because Mr. Stallman very publicly

He didn't say OpenBSD was non-free, but that it distributed non-free
Software.

Looking at
ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/packages/i386/zangband-2.6.2p1.tgz

... seems to me pretty a pretty clear case.

> I am pretty sure he had no knowledge of

BTW, I think he was (as I frequently happen to by "abuse of language")
referring to the packages site, e.g.:

http://www.openbsd.org/4.2_packages/i386.html

Best,
Rui

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FW: Real men don't attack straw men, Stuart VanZee, (Thu Jan 3, 1:05 pm)
Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Thu Jan 3, 1:48 pm)
Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men, Ted Unangst, (Thu Jan 3, 6:33 pm)
Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men, Marco Peereboom, (Thu Jan 3, 2:34 pm)
Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men, Marco Peereboom, (Thu Jan 3, 4:39 pm)
Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men, William Boshuck, (Thu Jan 3, 2:23 pm)
Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Thu Jan 3, 2:30 pm)
Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men, Marco Peereboom, (Thu Jan 3, 2:37 pm)
Re: FW: Real men don't attack straw men, Tobias Ulmer, (Thu Jan 3, 2:19 pm)