Re: Play Nice - Real men don't attack straw men (Theo)

[David H. Lynch Jr.]

Firas Kraiem wrote:
>
> However, and that's the difference with people like you (and RMS), they 
> just consider that it doesn't give them the right to impose their view 
> of freedom on others, and they let the user do whatever the hell he/she 
> wishes to do, according to his/her personal view and beliefs on the 
> matter. That may or may not include installing non-free software, but 
> that is none of your business, or mine, or RMS'.
>   
    No one has told you what must or must not do.
    This whole thread started as a knee jerk reaction to Richard's
    to a very short remark by Richard on BSDTalk where to paraphrase he said
    that he was sorry that he could not recommend and of the BSD's
despite many
    positive qualities because they do not conform to his standards for
treatment of
     non-free software.
   
    The OpenBSD group chose to take that as a deliberately spiteful
missle targeting them.
    Maybe that is because OpenBSD is the closet to meeting Richard's
standards,
    Maybe it is because, my reading of most of this thread is URL's to
non-free software are a bad
    thing, but we are going to keep doing them anyway, because accepting
that they are not
     consistent with our values might give Richard an occasion to gloat
and we would rather
    insert a binary blob from Redmond than admit that Richard might be
the slightest right about anything.