On Saturday 15 December 2007 23:50:38 Mattieu Baptiste wrote: > On Dec 15, 2007 11:46 PM, Firas Kraiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So what ? Are you telling me that, just because there is one thing > > about which Richard disagrees with OpenBSD, he shouldn't have the > > right to also tell the good he thinks about it ? Or the other way > > around, because OpenBSD makes efforts regarding freedom, he should > > not have the right to express his points of disagreement ? > > No. I'm telling his points of disagreement are unfounded.
He doesn't like the fact that OpenBSD provides a convenient way for users to install non-free software. You can disagree with him, as I do, but you can't honestly say those claims are unfounded ! Of course, what he said in that interview, (something like "the ports tree contains non-free software") was evidently wrong, or at least very clumsily put, but I think that the fact that Richard came here to explain more in detail what he meant when he said that is a way to admit his mistake, or at least that's how I see it. Sadly, the harm is done and some people who blindly believe everything Richard says - and I'm pretty sure he himself sees that as a bad thing - might have been led to believe that OpenBSD actually contains non-free software. But it's no use crying over spilled milk, and if Theo said that OpenBSD people have a "giving nature", I also happen to have a forgiving one. Firas -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments GnuPG public key: http://itsuki.fkraiem.org/gpgkey
