On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 05:27, Chris Ison wrote:
> 
> DRI is still quite young and alot of people still have the "Screw you
> Billy Goat" attitude, 

Like who?

> to them FREE means no cost of any kind, 

I wonder how many times I'm gonna have to say I care about free speech,
not free beer.

> and the opotunuity to see "how" it was done without restrictions. 
> Afterall, this is how we learn, through observation of others.

Glad you understand this part at least.

> What has confused me here is that DRI is having anoncvs issues, and
> instead of focusing on the problem, simply by looking for another host
> (even is someone pays for it, but then there is that free issue again),
> a flame war has started up and ya all sounding like a bunch of 2 year
> olds.
> 
> Larry McVoy's suggestion may be a hot issue, but its certainly no reason
> for both sides to argue about it, all that was needed to be said was
> that DRI is looking for another CVS host as cvs suits the needs of the
> DRI team, and its compatable with the Xfree86 repository.

I don't remember any DRI developer doing anything else. It's other
people who are saying we absolutely have to use this non-free tool all
of a sudden, just because we're having hosting problems.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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