* 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. > >> > >> Blobs are not bad because Theo says so, or RMS says so or the GPL says > >> so or BSD says so. > >> Whether software hardware or whatever there are good logical reasons. > >> There is no classic BSD vs. GPL - not unless you are trapped in one > >> world or the other. > >> Either you know what free means to you without a license to refer to or > >> you don't. > >> If you really beleive that somehow hardware binary blobs - not that thee > >> really is such a thing are evil, and software ones > >> aren't then say so. If not then why are you arguing? > >> > >> > > > > What? Your argument is not concise. > > > I am not sure how to state this much clearer. My argument is best on my > understanding of OpenBSD principles. > It does not matter what set of values you use to condemn binary blobs > for drivers. The same logic works elsewhere. > It is not my argument I am using, its yours. I just happen to aggree > with it. > > Evil? Blobs are not evil! That's stupid. Blobs are stupid. Blobs mean > > > >>>> Rely on someone else to make it > >>>> Rely on someone else to fix it > >>>> Design X.org in a crappy way so said blobs can be used > >>>> Security... Christ, it's not about ethics, it's about the > >>>> > > quality of the OS. You GPL zealots are a bunch of religious nut-jobs > > > The quality of nothing else matters ? > I do embedded work, there is often little or no boundary between the OS > and user space. > M$ has proven fairly effectively that you can take an OS with a > reasonable security model and make it > incredibly insecure through poor policy, and applications that ignore > security entirely. > > I have not picked labels at random and slapped them on you. While I am > not a GPL zealot, > even if I were it adds nothing. > My argument had nothing to do with any license. > I took your statements to their logical conclusion. > >
I still am having trouble following your ramblings. Furthermore, it is considered very poor nettiquite to privatly mail someone about a thread, recieve that person's reply, and then cc your reply back to the public thread. I can't have a discussion with someone who is not civil enough to practice this. Take your anti-social techniques elsewhere please. -- Travers Buda
