Chris Gianelloni posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:53:19 -0500:
> On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 08:28 -0700, Duncan wrote: >> OTOH, for those who choose to use slave-ware instead of freedom-ware, > > While the rest of your mail was both informative and helpful, leave this > political crap out next time. This is a development list, not a > political list. Simply mentioning that the elfloader is the only choice > for people using proprietary, closed-source drivers would have been > enough without pulling out some label specifically chosen to incite a > strong set of emotions. I see your point, but cannot agree. If his question hadn't been in direct reply to my post, this being a development list and all, I probably wouldn't have replied. However, once I choose to reply, I'm not going to simply black out what I believe, should the topic legitimately come up, as it did. As for that belief, now seems the appropriate time for the below sig change, which I've been contemplating since I read the article. I'll just point to it, and point out Gentoo's own choice of the GPL, in lieu of the previous multi-paragraph argument I had typed and out of respect for the list. You are right with the dev list part, so fup2 set... (tho I don't know how it'll fair thru the news2list gateway and with various local mailing list pref settings). If you wish to reply to the list, I won't deny you last reply, but I'll do my best not to reply to that, as I've already said what I believe I must say. -- Duncan - No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
