On Jan 6, 2008, at 9:20, "Karthik Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 6, 2008 10:41 PM, Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:52:18PM +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote:
| > Perhaps you're *USING* these 4 files to install the adobe flash
player
| > on your machine (your example a little bit later in this mail
seems to
| > indicate you have at least installed it). That's non-free
software
| > you've installed, but you are free to do so. Then, to you,
those four
| > small files are not so useless, are they ?
| >
|
| Okay, I didn't install it. But it's like saying 'There is no proof
| that the Makefiles won't work unless at least one person has
installed
| them and verified". In any case, I put forward the argument that
the
| Makefiles are useless because no single person has reported a
| successful install with them. BooHoo!
You are making an argument that Makefiles are useless when we are
discussing the free-ness of OpenBSD. It doesn't have a lot to do with
the subject at hand (again...), but there you go.
You argued Makefiles are FREE. See ma, no .so in cvs.. etc. Now you
use ftp and download PowerPoint to test if the system works, and say:
hey. it's a free tool and I downloaded non-free. But just testing. But
it's a free tool, like uhm. make and Makefile s ... so I guess
everyone can use it to simply test if the non-free can be downloaded
with free tools. Is that what you're getting at, about the FREE
makefiles and their usefulness? Ah, okay; I understand you.
I did, I tested the above procedure before sending my mail to the
list. Doesn't mean I've used it, but if you think it's shameful to
prove you wrong, I think that says more about you than about me.
You're not proving me wrong. Whom are you kidding? You need to come to
terms with yourself.
You still have not shown any file in the OpenBSD cvs repository that
is not free. You make gratuitous analogies that are completely
irrelevant - try to stick to the subject, no analogies necessary.
There's no cigarettes in OpenBSD, it's all free bits of software etc.
Free bits of software which can download non-free bits = Harmless bits
of paper and tobacco which when lit and inhaled will cause cancer.
If you feel the analogy is painful, tough luck bro.
Right. And it is your choice to do or use either so engage your brain
and start making choices for yourself.
I'm through talking to you here. I'm not going to reply to your
posts again.
--
Karthik
http://guilt.bafsoft.net
