http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Bilano
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Last name of Billy B. Bilano troll genius. Mr. Bilano posts
incredibly plausible-sounding pleas for help on various alpha geek
mailing lists...
Is January some kind of official troll month? Why can't it be the
shortest month of the year?
Eric Furman wrote:
Yea, it was the artwork that attracted me to OpenBSD,
not all the hard work that was put in creating good,
clean, secure code. :-) (no offense Ken).
Thanks again Theo and all the other devs.
None taken. The quality of the OpenBSD effort goes without saying,
although
chefren wrote (shortened):
Don't forget to take a look at the unforgettable all talk no action
character with GNU horns behind the curtain on the paperwork of the
OpenBSD 3.7 release CD.
http://openbsd.org/lyrics.html#37
OK, I promised myself I wouldn't respond again to this thread or its
As we weather the Category 5 'Flame-icane Strawman', I would like
to call attention to Gregg Reynolds' original post on this thread,
which I feel offers fresh thinking about how to talk about licensing,
and strategies for surviving the buffeting of the next great
Rhetorical Depression.
Well
misc, Richard:
As someone from a relatively outside perspective, I find this
thread puzzling. My feelings have swung from one side to the
other as the thread has surged on. I just don't know the
players well enough to draw a firm conclusion.
The nub of the perceived slight is this: RMS can't
From my perspective as someone outside the BSD and GPL cultures,
both camps seem to have many more similarities than differences.
I see both Theo and Richard as principled iconoclasts, stubbornly
creating and promoting software that meets their individual high
standards, meeting and overcoming
Darrin Chandler wrote:
There seems to be a subtext in your message that one license is more
free than the other, and that the more free license is the GPL. This is
not true.
I like both licenses and use software under both licenses. For software I
write, I can easily see scenarios where I
Darrin Chandler wrote:
... BSD/MIT/ISC licenses are more Free than GPL. There's nothing
to debate about that. It's just the way things are ...
I don't doubt your claims one iota. But in saying that, don't
believe you have convinced me that the other side somehow has
less valid claims.
And
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