On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 01:55:10PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes: > > On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 10:06:18PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Please, people, if you have not thought through the ramifications of > > > what you are trying to do, take a step back and look at the big > > > picture first. Why not try to help the free software community > > > instead of hurt it? > > So the BSD folks aren't part of the free software community? > They are but what they are doing is essentially providing 'aid and > comfort to the enemy' (proprietary software).
We distribute non-free software, so that makes us the enemey, right? Hell, some of us write non-free software, so we must be a bunch of sickos, right? And in any case, you've just admitted that Debian FreeBSD would be assisting a portion of the free software community. At worst, it might help a bunch of other people too. At the very worst, it can't hinder us. > > You're insane. > I guess this is welcome, as when one's opponent resorts to ad hominem > attacks, it usually means that one is on the right side of the issue > :-) Your arguments make absolutely no sense whatsoever. Your base assumptions are blatantly false, and unsupported by either any argument you've made, or commonly accepted opionion. Like I said, you're insane. The BSD license is not evil. Proprietry software authors might be deluded, but they certainly aren't `the enemy'. Making a distribution derived from Debian, whether it be proprietry, or free, or popular, or ignored by everyone, doesn't matter. Those are my underlying opinions. I get the impression that there are a number of people out there that agree with them. Quite frankly, I don't care if you agree with them or not, but claiming that Debian is fundamentally against all of them strikes me as both wrong and obnoxious. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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