> Is it true that Puffy is not here because of Theo's concerns about
> his copyrighted Puffy logo?
> http://misc.allbsd.de/Kampagnen/NoBlob/NoBlob-en-Poster.jpg
No. That is false. Whoever told you that lied to you.
> I also couldn't use Puffy logo on Ronja because then I wouldn't be able to
> talk
> about OpenBSD negatively if it came out there is some serious problem with
> Ronja and OpenBSD together.
There is a serious problem with what allbsd is doing. They first
approached me on the 13th with a campaign using our "Stop the Blob"
slogan. That is something OpenBSD takes very seriously, yet at the
bottom of the poster you can see a list of operating systems which
specifically use a Blob, and actually those projects work against us
when we take on vendors pushing Blobs.
Of course the first Blob to mention is the Atheros driver in all
those operating systems.
But more and more of these Blob's are making it into FreeBSD all the
time. The Nvidia driver (though now they are using our nvidia driver,
and they have a nvidia employee on their team who commits things to
that driver without talking to anyone). And the same thing is
happening to lots of other drivers in FreeBSD. FreeBSD apparently has
a signed agreement with Nvidia over the accelerated video driver, and
I guess that creates a reluctance amongst them to fight Nvidia with us
for ethernet drivers. The same has happened with other things like
Adaptec RAID. FreeBSD developers actively side with the vendors when
we demand documentation.
So isn't it rather hypocritical to have a anti-Blob campaign, backed
by projects which embrace the Blob?
After being shown the first version of the art (showing our slogan,
and all the BSD's down below), I told allbsd that
(1) they cannot misuse our slogan like that
(2) I felt their whole campaign was hypocritical
Daniel Seuffert got very angry, and instead of removing operating
systems which are pro-Blob from an anti-Blob posted, they instead
deleted us.
Isn't that just incredible?
> I think Theo should stop being paranoid about his Puffy. Puffy is not
> something
> you steal from a bowl and it disappears. I also have a Ronja logo which is
> under GFDL and noone is stealing it and damaging me. The same for the Linux
> Tux
> I have the feeling.
You've got it wrong.
