Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Han Boetes
Theo de Raadt wrote: Yes, and you are being the usual slimy hypocritical asshole. ... You treat these issues different because you are a hypocrite. ... In honour of your hypocrisy. ... How convenient for your hypocrisy. ... It is lying, and it is hypocrisy. Third time I've said that. I'll

Re: Bottleneck in httpd. I need help to address capacity issues on max parallel and rate connections

2007-12-15 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
Hi, On 2007-05-10 8:40:36 Claudio Jeker wrote: With many shortliving connections you have a lot of sockets in TIME_WAIT. Because you are testing from one host only you start to hit these entries more and more often this often results in a retry from the client. I'm curious what you meant by:

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread marina
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007, ropers wrote: On 15/12/2007, Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: do you give a no-recommendation to the internet as well? Well, his past statements about not being able to view HTTPS pages, catching web pages (browsing through email?) and receiving messages in batches

Re: Real men don't attack straw men - FINALIZE!

2007-12-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net
sorry guys, but: from http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html: misc User questions and answers, general questions. This is the most active list. Please, read the FAQ and the installation documents, and see How to report a Problem before posting. advocacy Promoting the use of OpenBSD.

security patches for packages

2007-12-15 Thread Chris
I understand that OBSD releases patches only for the base system. But if I, for example, run Firefox and there's a vulnerability in it, is there any way to patch that without running -current or trying to update Firefox from the Mozilla Foundation? What are some of the ways to patch

Re: security patches for packages

2007-12-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/15 21:04, Chris wrote: I understand that OBSD releases patches only for the base system. But if I, for example, run Firefox and there's a vulnerability in it, is there any way to patch that without running -current or trying to update Firefox from the Mozilla Foundation? Not at

Re: Default Route Issues

2007-12-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/14 19:30, Bret wrote: So the question is.. will haveing the 10.90.0.0/16 subnet cause conflicts with the 10.70.0.0/16 and 10.80.0.0/16 networks on the OpenBSD (1) box's routing table. I think you should read the Understanding IP Addressing document referenced in faq 6.1. I didn't

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Martin Schröder
2007/12/14, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: running non-GPL-covered software? Not I. I frequently run OpenSSH, whose license is not the GNU GPL, and is incompatible with the GPL (if my memory serves). please stop spreading lies (or looking like a fool) by not doing

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Iñigo Tejedor Arrondo
El vie, 14-12-2007 a las 15:49 -0500, Richard Stallman escribiC3: Since both emacs and gcc contain code inside them which permit them to compile and run on commercial operating systems which are non-free, you are a slimy hypocrite. I see you are being your usual friendly self

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:12:49PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: [...] know the license of OpenSSH, which you probably use daily. Please stop this if my memory serves. It makes you look as either incompetent or malovelent. or senile really... I still did not get an answer because of

ldapvacation on amd64 silently dies

2007-12-15 Thread Chris Paul
The ldapvacation program with the exact same configuration works fine testing it on my (i386) thinkpad but not on my amd64 servers. I'm wondering if anyone else can confirm that this program has problems running on amd64. Here is the command I run and the output I get:

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Kent Watsen
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: They're not required to make their changes available. They're required to acknowledge your copyright, but your licence does not require proprietary developers to release changes at all and it does not require GPL developers to release changes under your choice of

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Tony Abernethy
Gilles Chehade wrote: or senile really... I still did not get an answer because of apparent mail-batch-or-checking-the-facts-or-whatever issues, I don't know why he won't answer, maybe he has conveniently forgotten that question ? One of the advantages of old age is a convenient memory. (At

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread chefren
I see both Theo and Richard as principled iconoclasts, stubbornly creating Eh, that was a very long time ago that Richard created interesting software... and promoting software that meets their individual high standards, meeting and overcoming difficult opposition. Richard Stallman's

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
I honestly don't think if you get Theo's email that there is any hope for you but let me try to add to it. First lets start off with the fact that you are NOT allowed to change the SOURCE license. So joe-schmoe-programmer takes moo.c which is ISC licensed and adds some crud to it. He can decide

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread bofh
On Dec 15, 2007 1:26 AM, Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bofh wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 7:11 PM, Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How, pray tell, would purchasing and using this software reduce my freedom, given that not only does it allow me to make money doing something I find

UUCP to mars

2007-12-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 03:55:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Email and web via UUCP ? I see it making a big comeback when humans finally colonize mars ;-) Just no serial handshaking. No kidding. Think of the delays. between here and there. By the time the US gets to Mars, we'll have

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
Are you afraid that people are just going to go after features rather than free software once they've been tempted? so you must keep them ignorant. Plus, how does using GPL software educate people about the GPL philosophy? Nobody can deny that a VAST majority of the F(/)OSS community does

.history file prevent login

2007-12-15 Thread nevermind
Hi. I set a sappnd flag to .history file in my home dir. After few days i can't login, system hang after password entering... top report 50% CPU usage from ksh... and no prompt apears... i find out that problem is caused by .history file ( defined in ~/.profile - export HISTFILE=~/.history ).

Re: .history file prevent login

2007-12-15 Thread Zhivko Tashev
nevermind wrote: Hi. I set a sappnd flag to .history file in my home dir. After few days i can't login, system hang after password entering... top report 50% CPU usage from ksh... and no prompt apears... i find out that problem is caused by .history file ( defined in ~/.profile - export

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread bofh
On Dec 15, 2007 11:04 AM, Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: stupid. Shut up. In case you missed it, this discussion revolves just as much around the concept of what Richard considers freedom as it does around licenses and source. This is what I'm on about. My understanding of Richard's

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Chris Zakelj
bofh wrote: On Dec 15, 2007 11:04 AM, Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: stupid. Shut up. In case you missed it, this discussion revolves just as much around the concept of what Richard considers freedom as it does around licenses and source. This is what I'm on about. My

Re: UUCP to mars

2007-12-15 Thread ropers
On 15/12/2007, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the time the US gets to Mars, we'll have quantum communication: instantaneous across the universe. Did you read On Bullshit, then? ;-) Or what do you know that we don't? I can't see anyone other than the US going to Mars. Sure,

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread bofh
On Dec 15, 2007 11:19 AM, Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. But what he has (apparently) said is that doing so sucks, as it encourages them to continue their proprietary (and hence, bad/unethical) ways. I'd like to know why paying for a company's software, in a very niche market

Re: .history file prevent login

2007-12-15 Thread nevermind
Zhivko Tashev wrote: taka li trqbva da govorish za stranata ni? Focus on topic... ... spesti mi patrioti4nite si izqvi zanapred... -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/.history-file-prevent-login-tp14351761p14352495.html Sent from the openbsd user - misc mailing list

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Jeff Palmer
The ports system may contain a general facility which could build and install any program. (I don't know if it does.) If so, I have nothing against that. But it certainly contains specific recipes for installing specific non-free programs. That's what I object to. Richard, We understand

Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Theo de Raadt wrote: EVERYTHING code related that people thinks comes from the FSF today, comes to us without Richard Stallman actually working on it. Richard is just another random long haired hypocritical mouthpiece, who will be known after his death as the original author of the C compiler

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Pekka Niiranen
Chris Zakelj wrote: bofh wrote: On Dec 15, 2007 11:04 AM, Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: stupid. Shut up. In case you missed it, this discussion revolves just as much around the concept of what Richard considers freedom as it does around licenses and source. This is what I'm on

Re: Monty Python 3000 Thread

2007-12-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
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Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Chris Zakelj
bofh wrote: On Dec 15, 2007 1:26 AM, Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bofh wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 7:11 PM, Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How, pray tell, would purchasing and using this software reduce my freedom, given that not only does it allow me to make money

acx(4) fails to assossiate on OpenBSD 4.2

2007-12-15 Thread Dmitrij Czarkoff
I've got a D-Link DWL-G520+ wireless acx111-based PCI card. It is listed as supported device on acx(4) man page. When I boot up my i386 box, I get it picked up by acx driver, but when I try to run dhclient on acx0, I get no DHCPOFFERs, but only acx0: watchdog timeout errors comming up about every

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Chris Zakelj
bofh wrote: On Dec 15, 2007 11:19 AM, Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. But what he has (apparently) said is that doing so sucks, as it encourages them to continue their proprietary (and hence, bad/unethical) ways. I'd like to know why paying for a company's software, in a very

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt wrote: EVERYTHING code related that people thinks comes from the FSF today, comes to us without Richard Stallman actually working on it. Richard is just another random long haired hypocritical mouthpiece, who will be known after his death as the original author of the C

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Theo de Raadt wrote: Richard seperated us out. Jack, don't go telling me that we may not rail against Richard being a prick. Well, no, you may. The problem is when two people sling poop on each other, sooner or later it ends, and then all you've got is two guys standing there looking

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Theo de Raadt
Theo de Raadt wrote: Richard seperated us out. Jack, don't go telling me that we may not rail against Richard being a prick. Well, no, you may. The problem is when two people sling poop on each other, sooner or later it ends, and then all you've got is two guys standing there

Tricky Dicky [Was: Real men don't attack straw men]

2007-12-15 Thread William Boshuck
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:49:19PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: I should more precisely have said that the OpenBSD ports system includes instructions for fetching, building and installing specific non-free programs. Yes, that would be the truth. What you did say,

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Theo de Raadt wrote: I was not inspired by him, but by Chris Torek, Keith Bostic, and Mike Karels, Heroes of my g-g-generation, bless them all and the code and documentation they wrote. who chose to not play politics. Here in Colorado, I've paraded Richard to lobby before elected

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Theo de Raadt wrote: Well, no, you may. The problem is when two people sling poop on each other, sooner or later it ends, and then all you've got is two guys standing there looking sheepish, all covered with poop. How is this my fault? It's not your fault. You're still standing

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread David H. Lynch Jr.
Travers Buda wrote: * David H. Lynch Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-14 14:39:49]: Put away the licenses and open up your mind. God did not write the licenses, People wrote them. They wrote them to meet specific needs. Blobs are not bad because Theo says so, or RMS says so or the GPL says

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Iñigo Tejedor Arrondo
El sC!b, 15-12-2007 a las 09:57 -0700, Jack J. Woehr escribiC3: I profoundly respect both of you and know you both f2f. Richard has been my house guest twice. You're both tyrannical, bratty absolute tyrants, the difference being Richard is passive-aggressive and Theo is

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
IC1igo Tejedor Arrondo wrote: El sC!b, 15-12-2007 a las 09:57 -0700, Jack J. Woehr escribiC3: I profoundly respect both of you and know you both f2f. Richard has been my house guest twice. You're both tyrannical, bratty absolute tyrants, the difference being Richard is passive-aggressive

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 03:49:54PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: So have you sent these types of unrecommendations to other OS' mailing lists or just OpenBSD's? I generally don't raise the issue, and I did not raise it this time. I did not start this discussion. I posted on this

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread David H. Lynch Jr.
Ray Percival wrote: I guess major advertising firms, politicians, and ghandi are not clear thinking adults. Good one. For a minute there I thought you were serious but now I see that you're just taking the piss since anybody who will hold up advertising firms and politicians as shining

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Pieter Verberne
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 10:49:12AM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: Richard seperated us out. Jack, don't go telling me that we may not rail against Richard being a prick. Well, no, you may. The problem is when two people sling poop on each other, sooner or later

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Jack J. Woehr wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: How is this my fault? Theo has made it clear to me in private email that what he was asking here, is Why, Jack, are you telling me to shut up and not Richard? Excuse me for the inclarity. Richard, knock off baiting the OpenBSD community, you

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Eric Furman
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:14:15 -0500, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Dec 15, 2007 11:04 AM, Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: stupid. Shut up. In case you missed it, this discussion revolves just as much around the concept of what Richard considers freedom as it does around licenses

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:32:19AM -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote: I do, too. I like them both. I want them to stop fighting in public. I don't care which one started it. I suppose it was Richard. It doesn't matter. Our reputations as human beings will long outlive our reputations as coders.

Straw men, tin men, whatever

2007-12-15 Thread Bailey, Michael L [EQ]
delurking briefly, hoping not to annoy everyone... but from where I sit, all y'all are awesome. Free software inspired me to get interested in computers which helped my income. I really had no interest prior to learning there were alternatives to Microsoft. And I've read that the BSD tcp/ip

Re: UUCP to mars

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
* Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-15 09:04:07]: On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 03:55:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Email and web via UUCP ? I see it making a big comeback when humans finally colonize mars ;-) Just no serial handshaking. No kidding. Think of the delays.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Eric Furman
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:25:40 -0500, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Dec 15, 2007 1:26 AM, Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bofh wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 7:11 PM, Chris Zakelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How, pray tell, would purchasing and using this software reduce my freedom,

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
* Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-15 08:24:21]: Are you afraid that people are just going to go after features rather than free software once they've been tempted? so you must keep them ignorant. Plus, how does using GPL software educate people about the GPL philosophy?

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Darren Spruell
On Dec 15, 2007 10:36 AM, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard is the face that launched a thousand Gnus. You as well as anyone here know what he did for the concept of giving away source code. He inspired a whole generation of free software writers. I was not inspired by him,

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
* David H. Lynch Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-15 13:27:26]: Travers Buda wrote: * David H. Lynch Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-14 14:39:49]: Put away the licenses and open up your mind. God did not write the licenses, People wrote them. They wrote them to meet specific needs.

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
* Jack J. Woehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-15 09:57:01]: Now now. Order. Richard is the face that launched a thousand Gnus. You as well as anyone here know what he did for the concept of giving away source code. He inspired a whole generation of free software writers. Look at the Gnu tree

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread bofh
On Dec 15, 2007 2:37 PM, Eric Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are wrong. This thread *is* about personal freedom. It started with RMS's attack on OBSD's ports system Why is it an attack? He has said the same thing of all the major linux distros for the longest time. That is the thing that

Re: UUCP to mars

2007-12-15 Thread Floor Terra
On Dec 15, 2007 8:56 PM, Travers Buda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-15 09:04:07]: On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 03:55:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Email and web via UUCP ? I see it making a big comeback when humans finally colonize mars ;-)

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread L
Jack J. Woehr wrote: Well, no, you may. The problem is when two people sling poop on each other, sooner or later it ends, and then all you've got is two guys standing there looking sheepish, all covered with poop. How is this my fault? It's not your fault. You're still standing

Re: UUCP to mars

2007-12-15 Thread Michael Spratt
I guess the drivers for that will be implimented in like OpenBSD V 16.5 or so. QID (quantum interface device) or QEID (quantum entaglement interface device) The only problem is that at that point the system might gain conciousness and start making decisions .. Maybee by then I'll know what the

Re: acx(4) fails to assossiate on OpenBSD 4.2

2007-12-15 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/15 20:33, Dmitrij Czarkoff wrote: I've got a D-Link DWL-G520+ wireless acx111-based PCI card. It is listed as supported device on acx(4) man page. When I boot up my i386 box, I get it picked up by acx driver, but when I try to run dhclient on acx0, I get no DHCPOFFERs, but only

rhetorical strategies

2007-12-15 Thread Gregg Reynolds
It all boils down to language and rhetorical strategy. rms claims that OBSD encourages the use of non-free software. The OBSD folks consider that incorrect and slanderous. Instead of tis so - tis not argumentation, I propose a search, not for agreement, but for clear, simple, and pragmatic

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Mattieu Baptiste
On Dec 14, 2007 9:49 PM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you tell me the name of that facility, or something else about it? If it is specifically and only useful for blobs, perhaps it should be remove from gNewSense. On the other hand, if it is a general purpose feature and

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Marco Peereboom wrote: RMS definitions of free/liberty/freedom etc are contorted to fit his believe system. They are not legal definitions and worse not even correct English. Got to love that the non-native speaker has to point that out. Marco, With all due respect, you made a huge mistake

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
OpenBSD refuses to accept it's users being forced into depending on vendor binaries and pushes people to send a message that open support for hardware matters. I appreciate those actions. They help our community.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
How does using non-free software, by your definition anything none GPL'ed I gather, bring actual physical harm to anyone anywhere? Physical harm is not the only kind of harm. Losing your freedom is harm too. Social practices that lead people into a life without freedom are harmful.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
Richard, you can try to weasel your way all you can, saying you're `not aware' of such and such. In the end, if you want to be true to your goals, you should say you do not recommend ANYTHING. Heck, you should say to people that they should not use computers at all, for obvious

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
RMS' statement that OpenBSD endorses non-free software goes too far, What I said is that the ports system contains recipes for installing non-free software. In another message in this batch I address the question of what words to use to refer to that relationship. For me, the issue is that

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
For personal reasons, I do not browse the web from my computer. (I also have not net connection much of the time.) To look at page I send mail to a demon which runs wget and mails the page back to me. It is very efficient use of my time, but it is slow in real time.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists. so much for free speech. Free speech means you are free to tell people about the Adobe flash plug-in, and also free to decide not to tell them.

Re: Real men don't attack sign men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
I doubt someone who is truly unfriendly could organize a hackathon, a friendly social event. He may be perfectly friendly to others. What is relevant is that he tends to be unfriendly to me. The same argument could be made about your unfriendliness. We could not talk to you

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Theo de Raadt
How does using non-free software, by your definition anything none GPL'ed I gather, bring actual physical harm to anyone anywhere? Physical harm is not the only kind of harm. Losing your freedom is harm too. Social practices that lead people into a life without freedom are harmful.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
Come oh dilbert of gnu, stamp your licence upon all who code. Propegate your gnu legacy through the universe down to the plank scale. Install your agenda near and far. Come and spread the evangalistic word. All I can do personally is bless your computer. But if it has non-free

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Saturday 15 December 2007 21:37:37 Mattieu Baptiste wrote: This is to me simply pathetic that you don't admit all the merits, qualities and efforts regarding freedom that OpenBSD developpers made. http://www.fsf.org/news/fsaward2004.html Not to mention the countless times Richard

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Theo de Raadt
What I said was that I don't recommend OpenBSD because the ports system suggests non-free programs. On the bsd talk show you did not withhold your recommendation because the ports system suggests non-free programs. No way, that's not what you said on that show. What actually happened is that

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
Torvalds' version of Linux is not free software, for this reason. Ututo and gNewSense include a version of Linux which remove the firmware blobs, in order to make it free software. that's awesome, can users add these back in if they choose? I suppose so. I don't see

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Mattieu Baptiste
On Dec 15, 2007 11:17 PM, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do realize he has been criticizing most linux distros for years, right? For exactly the same thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0feature=related Yes, most. Why not gNewSense ? -- Mattieu Baptiste /earth is 102%

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
This incredibly misguided. People won't switch to free software because of hectoring and hamfisted attempts to frustrate their choices, Convincing people to switch to free software is just one part of what we need to do to establish a society in which users are free. We also have to

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 01:52:26PM -0600, Travers Buda wrote: However, if someone is well-versed in the GPL philosophy and rhetoric, it is understood what is meant when I say free and when I say open. but Richard is not talking to people who are well versed in GPL philosophy. he is talking to

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Mattieu Baptiste
On Dec 15, 2007 11:11 PM, Firas Kraiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 December 2007 21:37:37 Mattieu Baptiste wrote: This is to me simply pathetic that you don't admit all the merits, qualities and efforts regarding freedom that OpenBSD developpers made.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread bofh
On Dec 15, 2007 3:37 PM, Mattieu Baptiste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 9:49 PM, Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you tell me the name of that facility, or something else about it? If it is specifically and only useful for blobs, perhaps it should be remove from

Re: Bottleneck in httpd. I need help to address capacity issues on max parallel and rate connections

2007-12-15 Thread Philip Guenther
On Dec 14, 2007 3:06 PM, Mark Bucciarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-05-10 8:40:36 Claudio Jeker wrote: With many shortliving connections you have a lot of sockets in TIME_WAIT. Because you are testing from one host only you start to hit these entries more and more often this often

Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

2007-12-15 Thread Bengt Frost
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:31:25PM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:32:19AM -0700, Jack J. Woehr wrote: I do, too. I like them both. I want them to stop fighting in public. I don't care which one started it. I suppose it was Richard. It doesn't matter. Our

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Michael Spratt
You meant contaminate not bless right ? :) Here is the rest of the quote that you failed to include (obviously sarcastic and hinting that you not come blather in this forum) I summon you ohh old and defunct goat. Come shed your hairs upon our path. Come and grace us with your holey eminence

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
Please note that I'm not saying gcc or emacs should not support windows, solaris, ultrix or any other non-free operating system. I do not hold these extreme ethical views. I merely question RMS's ethics. Is there anyone here that actually believes it is wrong for free programs to have

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
Again, Richard made foul and faulty comments about OpenBSD first. Neither one. What I said was that I don't recommend OpenBSD because the ports system suggests non-free programs. That's neither faulty nor foul. It is factually accurate: the ports system does contain recipes to install

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
| As has been said before, the ports tree is just a | scaffold, used to force third party programs (be they free or non-free | and for whatever value of freedom you wish) to install into a sane and | known location within the filesystem, easing the task of installing |

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
He claims OpenBSD suggest the use of non-free software. After having used it for quite some time, such a suggestion was never made to me. I will not argue with your statement about your personal experience. The point is that OpenBSD distributes the ports system, and the ports system

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Richard Stallman
There is a difference between I have no obligation to answer each and every message and I cannot find a coherent answer to several messages. One difference is that the first one is true, and the second one is false. As you've seen by now, people were looking for something sinister in a

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Travers Buda
* Marco Peereboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-12-15 17:18:52]: So lets repeat it, GPL software is GRATIS. The term gratis seems like a good one. However, the GPL states that: You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
I exercise my freedom of speech by not telling people about the Adobe flash plug-in. I think you should, too. But I will not try to force you to do that, because I respect your freedom of speech. That's rich coming from someone who advocates limit of speech via a restrictive license. Shame

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 04:36:29PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: Please note that I'm not saying gcc or emacs should not support windows, solaris, ultrix or any other non-free operating system. I do not hold these extreme ethical views. I merely question RMS's ethics. Is there

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Jason Dixon
On Dec 15, 2007, at 4:37 PM, Richard Stallman wrote: This incredibly misguided. People won't switch to free software because of hectoring and hamfisted attempts to frustrate their choices, Convincing people to switch to free software is just one part of what we need to do to establish

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 04:37:45PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: This incredibly misguided. People won't switch to free software because of hectoring and hamfisted attempts to frustrate their choices, Convincing people to switch to free software is just one part of what we need

Re: swap encryption Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-15 Thread Gilbert Fernandes
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 01:02:42PM +0100, knitti wrote: swap encryption on OpenBSD is done different than what you advise. just use a sysctl for vm.swapencrypt.enable. Much less maintenance headaches. an yes, don't complain about being reminded that this is not a netbsd / linux support

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Theo de Raadt
The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists. so much for free speech. Free speech means you are free to tell people about the Adobe flash plug-in, and also free to decide not to tell

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Kimi
Please can we stop this thread? hasn't this gone on long enough already? :( -- Kimi

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Marco Peereboom
I realize that you are frustrated with the terms and their definitions. However, if someone is well-versed in the GPL philosophy and rhetoric, it is understood what is meant when I say free and when I say open. I don't see any other good way to discuss it. Certainly in the BSD camp we don't

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Duncan Patton a Campbell
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:05:16 -0800 Ryan Corder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand and appreciate the freedom that is defined by both the BSD and GPL licenses; that of ensuring the authors continual right of ownership. However, in terms of true freedom, both have limitations in place. It

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Saturday 15 December 2007 23:50:38 Mattieu Baptiste wrote: On Dec 15, 2007 11:46 PM, Firas Kraiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what ? Are you telling me that, just because there is one thing about which Richard disagrees with OpenBSD, he shouldn't have the right to also tell the good he

Supermicro H8SSL-i2, fsck, and OpenBSD 4.2 upgrade

2007-12-15 Thread Robert Healey
Good afternoon. I have a Supermicro 1011S-MR2B server with one of their H8SSL-i2 motherboards, and an Opteron 1210 CPU and 40 GB Western Digital SATA drive. The system runs perfectly fine and has no problems fscking all partitions on the release version of 4.1 with all the errata relevant to

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-15 Thread Firas Kraiem
On Saturday 15 December 2007 23:27:25 Mattieu Baptiste wrote: On Dec 15, 2007 11:11 PM, Firas Kraiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention the countless times Richard acknowledged all the positive contributions of OpenBSD as a whole to the Free Software movement, including in this very

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