-----Original Message----- From: Jason Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: No Blob without Puffy
On Mar 18, 2007, at 7:06 PM, SW wrote: <snip a formerly private email thread> I read your entire thread, and find it appalling that not only will you take someone's private email and broadcast it, but that it incriminates you on all counts. You admit that FreeBSD continues to ship BLOBs, but you wish to keep them on your campaign against BLOBs. Don't you see the hypocrisy in this action? -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net 1. We have nothing to hide. Theo wrote he would post the mails in public, I told him to do so. There's nothing private in those mails. Everybody has a right to know what was going on, read every bit. 2. I asked Theo if OpenBSD has objections to this campaign. Theo wrote that only BSDs with no Blobs should be on the poster. That's OpenBSD policy. FreeBSD and NetBSD have a different policy. Theo wanted OpenBSD removed from that poster, we did it. Theo claimed that Stop Blob! is OpenBSD "intellectual property" so we changed it to "No Blob!". If OpenBSD wants to improve the "Stop Blob!" campaign please stop complaining and contribute. I wish OpenBSD the very best and hope they will be able to succeed in any way. 3. FreeBSD has Blobs, there's no need for admitting, read the FreeBSD cvs, this is not a secret. 4. You think the only way to fight Blobs is totally abandon them. All the other BSDs have a different opinion. Because we have a different opinion how too achieve something (we all want free documentation) doesn't mean we like Blobs, NDAs or something. Yes, I am a FreeBSD-guy to the bone and I don't like Blobs nor that I am using them. And I will not do any sort of armchair quarterbacking. I will fight and tell the public what's going on and why I don't like it. 5. OpenBSD thinks there should be no possibility whatsoever to use Blobs. FreeBSD thinks it's up to the user to decide what's best for him. And maybe that will include competition between Open Source BSD-licensed drivers and Blobs. You can use Nvidia graphics drivers in FreeBSD and you can use xorg. You can use NVE or NFE soon. That's freedom of choice, Free as in FreeBSD (and NetBSD and DragonFly BSD etc.). 6. Go on with your fight for free documentation but please stop fighting all other BSDs. It will lead to absolutely no good. All the best for OpenBSD, Daniel
