Software Freedom DAY

2008-09-12 Thread Andres Genovez
Hi OpenBSD team. I am proudly to announce our little community of OpenBSD users in Cuenca, Ecuador, South America, are going to celebrate the Software Freedom Day on September 19-20. This event is going to develop on Universidad del Azuay @ Cuenca. Mainly I will talk about OpenBSD strengths

Re: Software freedom

2007-08-28 Thread Die Gestalt
For me it's a consistency problem. It's like selling a sport car with 4x4 tires. First of all, if you opt for an open source system it may be because you are concerned by the aforementioned problem, otherwise you would go for Windows or another proprietary OS. In second comes the issue of having

Re: Software freedom

2007-08-27 Thread Artur Grabowski
Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If anyone had any doubt that our insistance on freedom was important, just read this. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2007/08/24/0027.html What is even more astounding is the incestious love-in these other groups have, with their

Re: Software freedom

2007-08-27 Thread bsdusr
rest of the kernel uses it to store the value of curlwp. Sam won't recompile the HAL for us (fair enough), and we can't modify the HAL to use another register because doing so could put us in breach of the license (v. crappy). So, do a save/set/restore on %s7 in KernIntr() How hard is it to

Re: Software freedom

2007-08-27 Thread Theo de Raadt
rest of the kernel uses it to store the value of curlwp. Sam won't recompile the HAL for us (fair enough), and we can't modify the HAL to use another register because doing so could put us in breach of the license (v. crappy). So, do a save/set/restore on %s7 in KernIntr() How hard is

Re: Software freedom

2007-08-27 Thread Damien Miller
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rest of the kernel uses it to store the value of curlwp. Sam won't recompile the HAL for us (fair enough), and we can't modify the HAL to use another register because doing so could put us in breach of the license (v. crappy). So, do a

Software freedom

2007-08-26 Thread Theo de Raadt
If anyone had any doubt that our insistance on freedom was important, just read this. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2007/08/24/0027.html What is even more astounding is the incestious love-in these other groups have, with their Sam-worship, that prevents them from doing the obvious