Please. The GPL v4 mail was started by a troll. I am surprised that
anyone from the linux camp was taken in and keeps feeding the troll.
There's no GPL v4 (yet) and anyone who thinks there is, is a moron.
Now, can we leave a dead thread dead? Zombies should be exterminated
on sight.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008, Noah wrote:
Hi there,
there is a blank directory that I cant seem to view. I believe the
directory is a '^M'. can somebody please explain how I can see
filenames and directories containing control characters. Also how do I
rename the directory with 'mv'?
There
Giorgos Keramidas writes:
Some of us disagree with the 'off topic police'. If you have
questions about programs that _run_ on FreeBSD, please keep
asking here. Nothing has changed.
Umm ... while one can ask those questions here (questions@) and
hore to get answered, I believe the
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
Giorgos Keramidas writes:
Some of us disagree with the 'off topic police'. If you have
questions about programs that _run_ on FreeBSD, please keep
asking here. Nothing has changed.
Umm ... while one can ask
Glen Barber writes:
Umm ... while one can ask those questions here (questions@) and
hore to get answered, I believe the sanctioned forum is po...@.
It's rather lower traffic, which is not a bad thing.
I agree that they probably *should* be asked on ports@, but
because it
* Use a file manager.
I often use `dired-mode' inside an Emacs session to move around,
copy, re-organize, rename or delete files. Any file manager that
can display several character sets at once will do fine :)
Hey there Giorgos,
I'd love to use emacs but I go into
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 08:57:28PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
bad (TM).
No -- at *any* level:
you are wrong.
for example you WILL like to control what oficially your employees
ktalk about your company.
That's not censorship -- it's a nondisclosure agreement.
--
Chad Perrin [
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:26:21PM -0800, prad wrote:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:43:02 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
I'll
provide a technical example, as opposed to a social example, so maybe
you'll be able to understand my point ...
good illustrative examples, chad!
i
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:38:29PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
without moderation it's a mess.
I've seen more mess in response to your entirely unwelcoming manner than
ever in response to anything you call off topic in some of your
examples.
It's nice people like to help other people,
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:49:58PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
you're reply to another post:
If you wish you can call me fuhrer ;) but iwth Gestapo you certainly
got too far.
:D
good response to that unfortunate eruption of enthusiasm.
i think it's a problem of fear about past
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 08:04:18PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
than not you discourage beginners from getting interested in this
i don't discourage beginners that want to learn.
Most of them don't.
Considering that, the moment someone shows up and says I'm a Windows
user, but I'm
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:03:29AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
You remind me of a tech I once worked with who thought all customers
were stupid. Maybe they were...
the difference is that FreeBSD is free software.
or is not?
Perhaps you are not familiar with the term analogy.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 04:49:28PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Off topic=not about FreeBSD OS.
I'm amazed that you seem to think that making FreeBSD do what one wants
it to do isn't a FreeBSD topic.
exactly...
when is something part of FBSD and when not?
what is base system
~
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:42:32PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
probably that they would create competitors somehow, magically, without
providing any information that directly encourages competition for their
hardware. If they wanted to provide per-incident paid software support
or simply
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:31:17PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
What I can't equate with is why its acceptable for intel to do the
same... check if_iwi and its firmware. No other wifi device (that I'm
aware of- at least they'd be in the minority anyway) works this way. The
excuse is fcc regs- I
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:50:00PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 14:25 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
I think he's trying to say that open source drivers would be preferable,
and to develop them we'd need the hardware specs so we'd have a target
toward which to develop drivers.
prad wrote:
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:54:19 +0100 (CET)
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:
in my practice rejecting part of customers (those who are really
idiots) make sense. you get say 20% less money for 10 times less
work.
exactly!
proper advocacy on a 'free' (or
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:12:28 -0700
Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote:
I think that can be handled quite easily by community social pressure,
and moderation would just set a precedent for it's someone else's
job.
i don't think that has to happen at all.
personally i think self-moderation
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:03:55 +
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
Heh. The customer is /always/ right, even when they're wrong. The
difference is that you give the idiot customers exactly what they ask
for, and the good customers what they actually need
now that is
On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 23:53 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:50:00PM +1000, Da Rock wrote:
On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 14:25 -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
I think he's trying to say that open source drivers would be preferable,
and to develop them we'd need the hardware
On Sun 14 Dec 2008 at 19:45:24 PST Robert Huff wrote:
Glen Barber writes:
Umm ... while one can ask those questions here (questions@) and hore
to get answered, I believe the sanctioned forum is po...@. It's
rather lower traffic, which is not a bad thing.
I agree that they probably *should*
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:12:40AM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:31:15 +0800, Morton Harrow said:
I see with pain in my heart that the GPLv3 doesn't actually give the
users of GPLv3 software the liberty and freedom the FSF has been
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