On Jan 5, 2008 10:56 PM, Gilles Chehade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 09:58:47PM +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote: > > > On another hand we are not GNU/GPL and we don't mind our users installing > > > non free software if it is what they want. The FAQ is where this needs to > > > be documented for users to get their job done faster. > > > > > > > If you don't mind users using non-free software, you shouldn't be > > putting the 'Free. ' in 'Free. Functional. Secure.'; You shouldn't be > > fighting those blob vendors and call them nasty names; Rather, > > probably document how to use such drivers and firmware 'faster'. Then > > you shouldn't be making a claim that 'OpenBSD supports openness'. If > > you can manipulate your reasons for making this ethical, you shouldn't > > be calling others names. And you shouldn't bring back ethics' dead > > body around your neck. > > > > You are talking about unrelated matters, and mixing our goals with the > ones of your own community. >
I represent neither FSF nor OpenBSD. I probably represent the community which listens to the propagandas put across by both but wants to fight back against false marketing and for the right things TM. > OpenBSD is free software that contains no blob, no closed-source object > and that can be *fully* redistributed with no strings attached. You can > buy the cd and do whatever you want as long as you retain the copyright > on the files in it. You can take any part of OpenBSD and look at source > for it, nothing is obfuscated. You can build a full OpenBSD system from > the sources on the cvs. That's it. > Yawn. And it makes the flash installation faster after you've built it from the CVS. > What you do with it is not of our matter and we do not prevent you from > installing a proprietary software on top of it. This is your call, what > you do with what we provide you is none of our business, as long as you > do not remove the copyright notice. > My call: all lies and ego. -- Karthik http://guilt.bafsoft.net
