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Date: Sunday, January 6, 2008 - 2:42 pm

On Jan 6, 2008, at 2:46 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:

> Absolutely. FSF staff checked the BSD versions and told me what

Except, sir, at some point, someone made a mistake. And this mistake
has blown up in to this thread with this ongoing argument. Their
report was either not as accurate as you seem to think, or you're very
badly expressing the contents of the report (which has not been made
available to the OpenBSD community).

Yes, the port system allows easy installation of "non-free" and "non-
opensource" software. It does so no less easily than Debians Apt,
Redhat's RPM, and other package repositories built for any Linux based
distribution that distributes on the Internet.

Packages ARE free for distribution, or they wouldn't be available on
the FTP site, the CDROM, or distributed at all. If they are not,
they're no included. Period.

Someone on your staff is a lazy little punk and permitted their own
bias to be reflected in your words. In the end, what you said is still
what's on record.

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Richard Stallman..., Mayuresh Kathe, (Fri Jan 4, 10:05 am)
Re: Richard Stallman... , Theo de Raadt, (Fri Jan 4, 1:08 pm)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Richard Stallman, (Sat Jan 5, 10:31 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Craig Skinner, (Mon Jan 7, 6:21 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., johan beisser, (Sat Jan 5, 11:30 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Richard Stallman, (Sun Jan 6, 6:46 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Duncan Patton a Campbell, (Mon Jan 7, 6:32 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., johan beisser, (Sun Jan 6, 2:42 pm)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Richard Stallman, (Mon Jan 7, 7:30 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Eric Furman, (Tue Jan 8, 3:48 pm)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Jan Stary, (Mon Jan 7, 11:46 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., nicodache, (Mon Jan 7, 1:32 pm)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Steve Shockley, (Mon Jan 7, 6:41 pm)
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Re: Richard Stallman..., Gregg Reynolds, (Tue Jan 8, 12:22 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Alexander Hall, (Tue Jan 8, 8:34 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Dusty, (Sun Jan 6, 9:10 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Marco Peereboom, (Sat Jan 5, 1:39 pm)
Re: Richard Stallman..., johan beisser, (Sat Jan 5, 2:53 pm)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Sunnz, (Sat Jan 5, 11:24 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Richard Stallman, (Sun Jan 6, 6:47 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., L, (Sun Jan 6, 8:48 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Richard Stallman, (Mon Jan 7, 12:18 am)
Re: Richard Stallman..., Jacob Meuser, (Mon Jan 7, 9:07 am)
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