Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-10-01 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 01:39, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 29 September 2006 21:33, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)': Sorry, I use Outlook to read this list at work, and initially when I see posts to the list from you, it says that the message has an invalid

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's true from Duncan's perspective because that's the way it *feels* to him. In the end that's just feel good

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 30 September 2006 01:39, Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:01:05 -0500: Apparently his mailer

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Andrei Slavoiu
--- Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a very shallow definition of the essence of freedom, from the perspective of most end users, your scenario doesn't really change anything. From the end users perspective s/he is still dependent on someone else to make the changes. I wouldn't say

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Steev Klimaszewski
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a very shallow definition of the essence of freedom, from the perspective of most end users, your scenario doesn't really change anything. From the end users perspective s/he is still dependent on someone else to make the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Martin Bergstrand
Hey guys, this is an interesting debate, but could we please do it someplace else? On the forums for example, that way the subscribers of this list don't have to wake up to 50+ new off-topic messages from this list. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Bob Young
Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a very shallow definition of the essence of freedom, from the perspective of most end users, your scenario doesn't really change anything. From the end users perspective s/he is still dependent on someone else to make the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Ian McCulloch
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Martin Bergstrand wrote: Hey guys, this is an interesting debate, but could we please do it someplace else? On the forums for example, that way the subscribers of this list don't have to wake up to 50+ new off-topic messages from this list. I agree completely - it

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Bob Young
Richard Fish wrote: On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's true from Duncan's perspective because that's the way it *feels* to him. In the end that's

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Bob Young
Ian McCulloch wrote: On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Martin Bergstrand wrote: Hey guys, this is an interesting debate, but could we please do it someplace else? On the forums for example, that way the subscribers of this list don't have to wake up to 50+ new off-topic messages from this list.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 30 September 2006 15:21, Bob Young wrote: I've never understood why people care about off topic threads. It's an *email* list, thus it's reasonable to expect that most people are using an email client or some derivative thereof to read the messages posted to the list. With all

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Bob Young
Joe Menola wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 15:21, Bob Young wrote: I've never understood why people care about off topic threads. It's an *email* list, thus it's reasonable to expect that most people are using an email client or some derivative thereof to read the messages posted to the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 30 September 2006 3:38 pm, Bob Young wrote: U.if you have some desire to discuss the original topic is there something that prevents you from either replying to a message without the OT warning in the subject line, or posting a new message with a subject indicating what you

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-30 Thread Bob Young
Joe Menola wrote: On Saturday 30 September 2006 3:38 pm, Bob Young wrote: U.if you have some desire to discuss the original topic is there something that prevents you from either replying to a message without the OT warning in the subject line, or posting a new message with a subject

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Drew
it's stupid to say : open source (as GPL, LGPL, FLOSS etc..) is not necessary as we can just buy open source (but closed in fact) software. because of - closed source is IP (intellectuall property - watever this means, abstractive and poor words) and NOBODY exept the owner CAN modify it, change

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Piotr Pruszczak
Closed Source isn't Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property merely is what it is. And what it is quite simply is 'property' (in whatever physical manifestation that takes) generated by one's Intellect(good old grey matter). Closed or Open source is merely a legal framework that defines how

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Antoine Martin
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:43:12 -0700: I fail to see that it really makes much of a difference whether Jane Avgusr is dependent

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Drew
Closed Source isn't Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property merely is what it is. And what it is quite simply is 'property' (in whatever physical manifestation that takes) generated by one's Intellect(good old grey matter). Closed or Open source is merely a legal framework that defines

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread felix
There sure as heck is a difference between slaveryware and freedomware. It may seem to you that, for non-programmers, there is no difference between not being able to recode Microsoft or Apple software vs Linux software, but there is a world of difference. With proprietary software, there is

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread felix
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:03:25PM -0700, Bob Young wrote: That's almost entirely a theoretical difference, in the real world this freedom is actually exercised very little if at all. Almost?!? How many people actually use the freedoms guaranteed by the US constitution? For almost all of

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 10:36 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Sanders
[EMAIL PROTECTED], mused, then expounded: It absolutely is just like a car, or a house, or anything else. If my house could only be modified by the original builder, it would never be modified -- I'd never even get a picture hung for want of being able to put a nail in a stud. Now maybe I

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Antoine Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 4:04 AM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware) I am sure you've got the best of intentions, but as far as I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread felix
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:23:12PM -0700, Bob Sanders wrote: I run Linux, and Gentoo specifically, because I dislike being told what I can do on my computer and how I am to do it. I run an AMD platform because I dislike being told there is one way my platform shall operate, and from whom I

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:25 AM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) With Linux, even if I can't do it, there are hundreds

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Sanders
[EMAIL PROTECTED], mused, then expounded: I have long had a fantasy of sorts of someone coming out with a generic processor taht could be reconfigured on the fly -- of coming up with my own instruction set for it, so a custom gcc backend could produce code for it, and it would be immune to

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 11:34 AM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:03:25PM -0700, Bob Young wrote

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not saying he doesn't have the freedom to use them, I'm suggesting that they are inaccurate and their connotations don't reflect the true relationship between vendors and users, and for that reason their use should be reconsidered. But they

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread felix
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:41:36PM -0700, Bob Young wrote: Article 1 - Free exercise of religion: Lots of people every day. Article 2 - Right to keep and bear arms: Regulated, but many many people own guns. Article 12 - Right to vote: True that the percentage of voter turn out isn't as high

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread felix
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:10:15PM -0700, Bob Young wrote: Analogies suck, software isn't a car, or a house, or anything else, it's software. If you can't make you're point without analogies, maybe you haven't thought it through clearly enough. Heh. Analogies are beyond your grasp, eh? I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a very shallow definition of the essence of freedom, from the perspective of most end users, your scenario doesn't really change anything. From the end users perspective s/he is still dependent on someone else to make the changes. I wouldn't

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Fish Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:07 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware) On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:09 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 01:41:36PM -0700, Bob Young wrote

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But they *do* accurately reflect the relationship between vendors and users from Duncan's viewpoint. Your viewpoint is obviously different, but doesn't mean yours is the only true one. Oh please, spare me the relative truth crap. You can argue

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But they *do* accurately reflect the relationship between vendors and users from Duncan's viewpoint. Your viewpoint is obviously different, but doesn't mean yours is the only true one. Oh

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Fish Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:27 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you go to war, or be willing to die for the freedom that open source provides? If not, then equating it with the freedoms that real mean and women have fought and died for is to marginalize the importance the word is meant to convey. No, but

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Peter Davoust
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Fish Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:27 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a very shallow definition

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Fish Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 3:18 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware) On 9/29/06, Bob Young [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 29 September 2006 15:10, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)': -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] With Linux, even if I can't do it, there are hundreds

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:21 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware) Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 5:31 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) I think Duncan has adequately justified his use

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 29 September 2006 19:01, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)': No, No, NO! *anybody* can't! Yes, anybody can. However, most people decide that the effort required for them to make the change is greater than

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Freeman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Young wrote: That being said, way less than 5 percent of the population has even the slightest bit of interest in learning the things that you and I have chosen to dig in to...Those people are no less free for using CSS, and the fact is,

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 6:33 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) For me (and it appears for you as well), a greater

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 7:09 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware) On Friday 29 September 2006 19:01, Bob Young [EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware)

2006-09-29 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Richard Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 7:10 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift -slaveryware) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Young

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:27 AM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV? I didn't switch to Linux after a decade on slaveryware just to be enslaved by a

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 12:47 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 28 September 2006 16:32, Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)': -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 1:31 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) On Thursday 28 September 2006 13:16, Bob Young

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:57 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) On Thursday 28 September 2006 16:32, Bob Young

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Piotr Pruszczak
very very easy. to understand all this... OK, lets see the simple example. I have ATI card with x.org-7.1 drivers, nothing speciall - just poor BUT stable 2D 3D I probably COULD use closed-source driver BUT if my machine then will NOT work properly, I will achieve memory leaks etc (past

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Simon Stelling
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: No, they aren't. They can use another mechanic. Instead of having to consult *one particular entity* they can consult *any entity of a particular class*. They gain a choice, which means they have more freedom. Uhuh, I'm sure the Debian devs will gladly fix a

RE: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware)

2006-09-28 Thread Bob Young
-Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Duncan Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 5:17 PM To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: How To Play WMV (thread drift - slaveryware) Bob Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED