On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:47:18 +0100 Antony Stone <antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it> wrote:
> On Friday 12 January 2018 at 18:23:19, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Just speaking for myself, because of its deliberate obfuscations > > making integration extremely difficult, I don't consider SystemD to > > be free software. > > So what do you classify it as? > > Proprietary? Closed source? Commercial? Obfuscationware. New name for a new type of software that wasn't thought of a couple decades ago: Otherwise free software with the intent and effect to lessen our freedom to use our (other) software. I repeat: SystemD doesn't fit into current categories in the Free Software spectrum. SteveT Steve Litt January 2018 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
