Re: [OT] Freedom vs. entitlement (was Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL)

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:57 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] I mostly agree with you on your discourse on HAL, please note that I din't argue against HAL per se but only against being forced to use it on every hardware I want to use current X on. > What surprises me is how long

Re: [OT] Freedom vs. entitlement (was Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL)

2009-08-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-08-04_16:05:49, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 07:12 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-08-04 06:14, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > >On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 18:13 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > > >>On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:28 -0500, Chris wrote: > > > > > >>I am concerned a

Re: [OT] Freedom vs. entitlement (was Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL)

2009-08-04 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 07:12 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-04 06:14, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > >On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 18:13 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > >>On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:28 -0500, Chris wrote: > > > >>I am concerned about X's dependency on HAL. Years ago I was using my > >>

[OT] Freedom vs. entitlement (was Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL)

2009-08-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-04 06:14, Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 18:13 +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 09:28 -0500, Chris wrote: I am concerned about X's dependency on HAL. Years ago I was using my SGI Indy with a superb SGI Monitor and US keyboard (brackets and braces