On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:23:21PM -0500, William Boshuck wrote: > Richard Stallman referred to certain URLs in certain Makefiles > in the ports tree---not the collection of packages, after (in > the interview which indirectly prompted this thread) confusing > OpenBSD's ports tree with its installation system. He did not > refer to the packages collection in the statement in question.
I seem to have read somewhere he asked for an adenda clarifying the situation, was it referred to these? I seem to have understood it to be the packages distribution. > > > This discussion all started because Mr. Stallman very publicly > > > stated that OpenBSD was non-free and distributed non-free software > > > in it's ports tree. > > > > He didn't say OpenBSD was non-free, but that it distributed non-free > > Software. > > He said that it "include[s] in [its] installation system ... non-free > software". I'm willing to bet he got bad information or missed the "ports/packages" components. People ain't computers. Rui -- Wibble. Today is Pungenday, the 3rd day of Chaos in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
