You bring two words together: "free" and "GNU" So you are "free" not to use "GNU" software.
For me most freeware projects have a much higher quality as all the stuff comming from socalled "software houses". This is my "free" oppinion. Bye Alan Grimes wrote: > > om > > =( > > I have been thinking about this for a few days and I have decided to > report the inclusion of GRUB, as GRUB, in the GNU project as a bug, one > that I find extremely frustrating. My frustration regarding this subject > is to the point that I am about to go running through the streets > screaming... Well not exactly those actions but I am at that level of > frustration. > > Now I suspect you are about to hit the delete button. We are the high > and noble free software foundation. We deliver free software to the > masses. Freedom to everyone to download, modify, and use. > > Well my perspective on the situation is the reverse. I see a general and > useful project being commendered and perverted to serve RMS's agenda. > The difference between the FSF/GNU project and Microsoft is that > Microsoft doesn't preach freedom while locking users into a very narrow > technology base. They may be evil but they are still above hypocracy. > Free software tends to be exemplary. I have seen freeware and even Open > Source freeware such as freePascal (which I intend to use in my OS), > that can rival or beat any closed source package in existance. I > currently use the free XOS Loader, and it has been nothing but a > pleasure to use. And then I see the GNU project which, in my mind, has > come to be absolutly synonymous with shit. I would even say that a > software package sucks to the extent it relies on GNU software. > > I have not seen one GNU package that can be said to be more than a few > fractions better than INTERCAL. > > Okay, maybe I have let myself get a little carried away with my rantings > against the GNU software project, though none of them are undeserved. If > I could have things my way I would find a multiboot compliant loader > that I could use to make a bootdisk for my OS and not even bother with > the GNU project or any of its products at all. I wouldn't care that the > "Grand Unified Booter" had been anexed by a single family of operating > systems. If it were renamed to "The GNU Bootstrap Loader" I wouldn't > even snort at the irony. > > As it stands, the grand unified booter can only be downloaded onto a > system that supports unix-style long file names. It can only be > decompressed with Tar/Gzip. (Which are nominally available for DOS but > are horrendously destructive in their behavior on that system). > > It can only be compiled with GCC/Binutils, which I have found through > painful experience can't be made to run with any reasonable ammount of > effort on the user-aware Be Operating System. (The more an OS is aware > of its user, the less it is supported by GNU software). > > In short, GNU GRUB is saying to me: You can use me for free but only if > you install Linux/BSD/HURD on your system. > > Is that supposed to make me feel more free? > WOO HOOO! I get to choose between three suckey OSes!!! =P > > For GRUB to be GRUB, It absolutly cannot be biased towards (or against) > any reasonably common OS. > > Let me offer you a truce: Provide for me a GRUB binary that users can > *EASILY* install onto DOS disks with DOS or windows 9x, that will > PAINLESSLY load my prototype OS immage, to the extent I can produce a > good immage, and I will promise not to troll this list -- too much. =P > > If you have any questions about what OS I use, read my e-mail headers. > > -- > Waiting for a typical DOS application to crash is like waiting for hell > to freeze over. > http://users.erols.com/alangrimes/ <my website. > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub