On Jan 5, 2008 10:56 PM, Gilles Chehade <gilles@openbsd.org> wrote:
quoted text > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:58:47PM +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote:
> > > On another hand we are not GNU/GPL and we don't mind our users installing
> > > non free software if it is what they want. The FAQ is where this needs to
> > > be documented for users to get their job done faster.
> > >
> >
> > If you don't mind users using non-free software, you shouldn't be
> > putting the 'Free. ' in 'Free. Functional. Secure.'; You shouldn't be
> > fighting those blob vendors and call them nasty names; Rather,
> > probably document how to use such drivers and firmware 'faster'. Then
> > you shouldn't be making a claim that 'OpenBSD supports openness'. If
> > you can manipulate your reasons for making this ethical, you shouldn't
> > be calling others names. And you shouldn't bring back ethics' dead
> > body around your neck.
> >
>
> You are talking about unrelated matters, and mixing our goals with the
> ones of your own community.
>
I represent neither FSF nor OpenBSD. I probably represent the
community which listens to the propagandas put across by both but
wants to fight back against false marketing and for the right things
TM.
quoted text > OpenBSD is free software that contains no blob, no closed-source object
> and that can be *fully* redistributed with no strings attached. You can
> buy the cd and do whatever you want as long as you retain the copyright
> on the files in it. You can take any part of OpenBSD and look at source
> for it, nothing is obfuscated. You can build a full OpenBSD system from
> the sources on the cvs. That's it.
>
Yawn. And it makes the flash installation faster after you've built it
from the CVS.
quoted text > What you do with it is not of our matter and we do not prevent you from
> installing a proprietary software on top of it. This is your call, what
> you do with what we provide you is none of our business, as long as you
> do not remove the copyright notice.
>
My call: all lies and ego.
--
Karthik
http://guilt.bafsoft.net
