Re: : Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:26:25PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > > : > > > > > > It contains URL's to non-free software, and free Makefiles that > > > knows how to build that non-free software. But the entire ports

Re: : Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Rick Pettit
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:26:25PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > : > > > > It contains URL's to non-free software, and free Makefiles that > > knows how to build that non-free software. But the entire ports > > tree

Re: Working with Docbook on OpenBSD

2007-12-13 Thread Rico Secada
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:21:02 +0100 Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Never mind! I found htmldoc which converts HTML into PDF very nicely. So Docbook -> HTML ->PDF. It does the job and without Java like FOP needs! > Hi. > > Are there any tools that can be installed using packages or ports

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Lars Hansson
On Dec 14, 2007 9:23 AM, David H. Lynch Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Securing the RSM seal of approval may or may not appeal to you. OpenBSD does not, pardon the french, give a shit about RMS' "seal of approval". > But that still begs the question of OpenBSD's stance on non-free > sof

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread ropers
For kicks, I headed over to gnewsense.org. I really encourage people to check out the forums there ( http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ForumMain/ForumMain ) and see the kinds of quality discussions going on there: http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ForumMain/GNewSenseIsUgly http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ForumMain/WhyI

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Ted Unangst
On 12/13/07, Jeremy Huiskamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Users who can no invest the effort learn enough to use a simple > > interface do not deserve a reliable operating system. They deserve > > When I read that, it sounded a lot to me like saying "if you're not a > skilled medical practi

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Breen Ouellette
ropers wrote: This site uses ABLOBE Flush*, but it's TEH FUNNAY: http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=OpenBSD&word2=Richard+Stallman *) But it's also lynx(1) compatible: Follow the IFRAME: content link to see the gist of things. In the Flush version there's also a winning stick figu

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
> David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: > > Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > >> Hell, the OpenBSD ports tree should perhaps contain patches which > >> REMOVE such commercial operating system support. That's a fork > >> Richard would surely approve of. > >> > >> Richard, your pants are full of hypocritical poo. >

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread ropers
This site uses ABLOBE Flush*, but it's TEH FUNNAY: http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=OpenBSD&word2=Richard+Stallman *) But it's also lynx(1) compatible: Follow the IFRAME: content link to see the gist of things. In the Flush version there's also a winning stick figure knocking the

Working with Docbook on OpenBSD

2007-12-13 Thread Rico Secada
Hi. Are there any tools that can be installed using packages or ports for converting docbook xml files into PDF? Normally I would use FOP, but I would pref. not having to install that from source. Best regards. Rico.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Breen Ouellette
David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: Theo de Raadt wrote: Hell, the OpenBSD ports tree should perhaps contain patches which REMOVE such commercial operating system support. That's a fork Richard would surely approve of. Richard, your pants are full of hypocritical poo. I have no doubt tha

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
> On Dec 13, 2007, at 5:23 PM, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: > > If you are unwilling to adopt policies consistent with his, > > accept that you are not getting his endorsement and shut this > > thread > > down. > > Nobody here asked for or WANTS his endorsement. He started the > thread. W

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:22:07PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > When I read that, it sounded a lot to me like saying "if you're not a > > skilled medical practitioner, you don't deserve decent health care." > > Seems to me one of the better aspects of our society is our ability > > to all

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:40:43AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:44:35AM +0100, Mathieu Stumpf wrote: > > Le mercredi 12 dC)cembre 2007 C 11:22 -0800, Ted Unangst a C)crit : > > > On 12/12/07, Mathieu Stumpf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I agree "easy to use" and sampl

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Ray Percival
On Dec 13, 2007, at 5:23 PM, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: If you are unwilling to adopt policies consistent with his, accept that you are not getting his endorsement and shut this thread down. Nobody here asked for or WANTS his endorsement. He started the thread. We could give a shit

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Hell, the OpenBSD ports tree should perhaps contain patches which > > REMOVE such commercial operating system support. That's a fork > > Richard would surely approve of. > > > > Richard, your pants are full of hypocritical poo. > > > I have no doubt that in some c

Re: HP LaserJet P2015 on OpenBSD -- BEWARE

2007-12-13 Thread Kevin Steves
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:06:13PM +, Matthew Szudzik wrote: : I recently purchased an HP LaserJet P2015 printer, and I wanted to warn : other users not to make the same mistake. The printer crashes : intermittently while trying to print PostScript files with lpd. I've had a p2015dn since mar

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Jeremy Huiskamp
On 13-Dec-07, at 10:22 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: When I read that, it sounded a lot to me like saying "if you're not a skilled medical practitioner, you don't deserve decent health care." Seems to me one of the better aspects of our society is our ability to allow specialists to provide good servi

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Jeremy Huiskamp wrote: On 13-Dec-07, at 11:11 AM, Bob Beck wrote: If you like the current way it works, you should be able to continue with this system. But what if my mum, who has low computer skill, would like to install a free, functional and secure system? I think the software should help h

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
> When I read that, it sounded a lot to me like saying "if you're not a > skilled medical practitioner, you don't deserve decent health care." > Seems to me one of the better aspects of our society is our ability > to allow specialists to provide good services to non-specialists (or > at l

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Travers Buda
* Karthik Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-14 05:02:45]: > Hey, we could all use the same arguments and call OpenBSD hypocritical: > > say no to blobs (it's even on the nvidia-wallpaper!) but say yes to > libflashplayer.so (which is of course secure because it's obscure, but > more than that it

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:59:08PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: Richard Stallman wrote: recently we saw theft of BSD to GPL, and a large part of the GPL community thinks there's no problem with that, that the BSD community is being "petty" to make an issue o

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread David H. Lynch Jr.
Theo de Raadt wrote: > Hell, the OpenBSD ports tree should perhaps contain patches which > REMOVE such commercial operating system support. That's a fork > Richard would surely approve of. > > Richard, your pants are full of hypocritical poo. > I have no doubt that in some context Richard i

Re: Putting partition in RAM

2007-12-13 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 05:59:21PM -0800, Jake Conk wrote: > > Anyways I don't want to get caught up in that but thanks for your help > Gilbert, it solved my problem :) You wouldn't happen to know what is > the equivalent to this for linux machines would you? Here's my /etc/fstab entry from m

Re: HP LaserJet P2015 on OpenBSD -- BEWARE

2007-12-13 Thread Matthew Szudzik
> Also had about 10 HP 2015s that were working FINE... > > ...until they upgraded their server to the most recent Redhat/Linux kernel. > Forgive me for not knowing (caring) about which version, but the basics are > that a Redhat upgrade on the server end left me with 10 useless printers > that w

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Jeremy Huiskamp
On 13-Dec-07, at 11:11 AM, Bob Beck wrote: If you like the current way it works, you should be able to continue with this system. But what if my mum, who has low computer skill, would like to install a free, functional and secure system? I think the software should help her to make the most a

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Nick Holland wrote: Daniel Ouellet wrote: Bob Beck wrote: Users who can no invest the effort learn enough to use a simple interface do not deserve a reliable operating system. They deserve windows, and they deserve pop up buttong in their browsers that they click ok blindly for everyth

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Stuart Henderson wrote on Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:43:00PM +: > On 2007/12/13 11:51, Richard Stallman wrote: >> I'm talking about something else: >> what the system distro suggests that the user do. > OpenBSD does not suggest that people use ports. > We suggest people use binary packages. I t

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:51:37AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: If such an issue arises for a GNU package, and people think it is not doing the most useful thing, I will look at the issue and then if necessary discuss it with the developers. I forgot, dictator do create rules for others to fo

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Greg Thomas
On Dec 13, 2007 2:09 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:59:27PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > > Richard, you are a total hypocrite. You are in here creating a fuss about > > > our software, saying it is non-free, when you are doing exactly the sam

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Jason Dixon
On Dec 13, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:30:28PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: while we do provide a free operating system, http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html makes it total clear that you are a hypocrite and a liar. And makes it total clear

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread michael hamerski
> > Richard, I may be unfriendly, but you are a lying hypocritical > > asshole. > > > this pretty much sums up everything. can we all stop now? (-: > > aaron.glenn > Nah, it's too much fun... seriously though, even though ultimately pointless, I think it's a worthy public debate. Let him expound h

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
$ uname -a OpenBSD moobile.peereboom.us 4.2 GENERIC#7 i386 $ locate libflashplayer.so $ what the fuck are you talking about? On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 a

Re: Exclusion caused by SMALL_KERNEL

2007-12-13 Thread Jason George
>Hello, > >having spent most of the evening to understand why >my kernel build suddenly aborted compilation with >a pointer to a missing call "rt_mpath_next", I found >that the "option SMALL_KERNEL" clashes with >"pseudo-device pf 1", and that this was the sole >cause for my failure. My original r

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:02:45 +0530, Karthik Kumar wrote: >Hey, we could all use the same arguments and call OpenBSD hypocritical: > >say no to blobs (it's even on the nvidia-wallpaper!) but say yes to >libflashplayer.so (which is of course secure because it's obscure, but >more than that it's a ne

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Holland
Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Bob Beck wrote: >> Users who can no invest the effort learn enough to use a simple >> interface do not deserve a reliable operating system. They deserve windows, >> and they deserve pop up buttong in their browsers that they click ok blindly >> for everything. > > I

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:59:08PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Richard Stallman wrote: >> recently we saw theft of BSD to GPL, and a large part of the >> GPL community thinks there's no problem with that, that the >> BSD community is being "petty" to make an issue out of it. >> >> I

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:50:39PM -0700, Tom Rosso wrote: > On Dec 13, 2007 12:30 PM, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But - seriously, as a project, do we need the validation from > > FSF/Richard? > > > > This is a topic I would like covered. If we were to decide to adhere to > Richard's

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Whyzzi
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Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-13 Thread Tony Abernethy
Jason Beaudoin wrote: > On Dec 13, 2007 1:05 PM, Raimo Niskanen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:07:17PM +, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > > > First, I'd like to thank those who provided useful responces to my > > > query (which started this thread), both on- and off-li

Re: cvsweb browsing out of sync with latest src?

2007-12-13 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 13/12/2007, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/10/07, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey Nick, sorry to go against you, but do take a look at; > > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/sudo/ > > > > > > It's been eliminated since there's a replace

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Greg Thomas
On Dec 13, 2007 10:58 AM, Tom Rosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 13, 2007 10:30 AM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Good people of MISC land, could we please drop this thread, its lasted > > way longer than really needed. > > > > I'm enjoying watching RMS struggle and fail to

Re: : Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Jason Beaudoin
> If OpenBSD's port tree would be stated to contain only (pointers to) free > software, that is the current port tree would be split into a free port > tree in the distribution and a non-free tree to download from some > other site ready to drop into the free port tree. Then the distribution > wo

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:15:08 +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:30:28PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: >> while we do provide a free operating system, >> http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html >> makes it total clear that you are a hypocrite and a liar. > >And makes

Re: Real men don't attack straw men ( I Call Goodwins Law )

2007-12-13 Thread marina
Someone already mentioned Hitler. Can we let this thread die. --- Marina Brown

Re: Intel DQ35MP

2007-12-13 Thread Jason George
>Hello, > >I've just installed OpenBSD current on an Intel DQ35MP motherboard with a Quad >processor, this is the >dmesg log. Some devices are not recognized (PCI slot, ethernet, etc) > >OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #558: Tue Nov 20 10:36:15 MST 2007 >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/c

Re: Intel DQ35MP

2007-12-13 Thread Pierre Riteau
On Dec 13, 2007 9:25 PM, Marcos Laufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've just installed OpenBSD current on an Intel DQ35MP motherboard with a Quad > processor, this is the > dmesg log. Some devices are not recognized (PCI slot, ethernet, etc) boot -c to go in UKC or config -ef /bsd and

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:56:57PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: | I don't recommend Torvalds' version of Linux. The versions of Linux | in Ututo and gNewSense, which I recommend, do not have the blobs. Interesting, these linux distributions. They seem to be pretty new, what did you recommend be

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Alicornio
2007/12/13, Gregg Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 12/13/07, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please see > > > >http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html > > > > And > > > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ > > > > Not to mention: > > http://directo

Re: no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> > critical patches, and those should be pulled into 4.2-stable. > > Unfortunately, it isn't that easy. Some updates imply updates of > depending ports (e.g. poppler and evince), which may imply further > updates of dependencies. So you'll end up with -current -- more or > less, including more up

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Tom Rosso
On Dec 13, 2007 12:30 PM, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But - seriously, as a project, do we need the validation from > FSF/Richard? > This is a topic I would like covered. If we were to decide to adhere to Richard's requirements for inclusion on his free software list, what are the benefits

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread V. Karthik Kumar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is what I felt; All comments are welcome. If both parties were at fault for somehow giving the user the wrong idea that flash player is great on BSD OR windows is great coz it runs emacs, is this the right way to settle it? The honest way i

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
perhaps using pcc as a gcc replacement in openbsd doesn't settle well with rms and this is all a smokescreen? this was someone else's suggestion and they will remain unnamed. --

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Karthik Kumar
Hey, we could all use the same arguments and call OpenBSD hypocritical: say no to blobs (it's even on the nvidia-wallpaper!) but say yes to libflashplayer.so (which is of course secure because it's obscure, but more than that it's a necessity for so many users which makes it ethical to use it anyw

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Aaron Glenn
On Dec 13, 2007 11:59 AM, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Richard, you are a total hypocrite. You are in here creating a fuss about > > our software, saying it is non-free, when you are doing exactly the same > > thing yourself. > > Please see > >http://www.gnu.org/software/em

Re: cvsweb browsing out of sync with latest src?

2007-12-13 Thread Alexander Hall
Nick Guenther wrote: On 12/10/07, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey Nick, sorry to go against you, but do take a look at; http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/sudo/ It's been eliminated since there's a replacement by Todd under a non-GNU license. ~Mayuresh Crazy,

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Gilles Chehade
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > > [...] > > Does that make it non-free? > > Even giving the URLs has the effect of referring people to those > non-free programs. It gives those non-free programs legitimacy, > and thus contradicts the idea that "software sh

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:09:21PM +, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > Emacs *binaries* for *Windows* > > Supplied right by Richard's http and ftp mirrors. > > Yes, Emacs for people who aren't as fortunate as you or I am. > > > Richard, I may be unfriendly, but you are a lying hypocritical

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On 12/13/07, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:51:37AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > > If such an issue arises for a GNU package, and people think it is not > > doing the most useful thing, I will look at the issue and then if > > necessary discuss it with t

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Borja Tarraso wrote: Stallman, why did you start this thread? It is totaly absurd, it does not make any sense... Sounds like the first three lines for Ty's next song! Stallman, why did you start this thread? It is totaly absurd, It does not make any sense OpenBSD is as free as the wind Take

Re: KDE presents a distorted screen or quits in the middle of starting up

2007-12-13 Thread Bill Karh
On 12 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > It takes me 3 or 4 startx's before I get a KDE screen that looks > normal. When it looks bad, the terminal background is black and other > contrast problems exist. Other times it simply locks up in the middle > of starting up. > > Has any one els

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Jonathan Franks
On Dec 13, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: ... Even giving the URLs has the effect of referring people to those non-free programs. It gives those non-free programs legitimacy, and thus contradicts the idea that "software should be free". ... This philosophy disturbs me, and remin

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread David Vasek
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Theo de Raadt wrote: Since both emacs and gcc contain code inside them which permit them to compile and run on commercial operating systems which are non-free, you are a slimy hypocrite. Thus, we should not steer people towards non-free software. Both those software pack

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Borja Tarraso
Now the answer is... Stallman, why did you start this thread? It is totaly absurd, it does not make any sense... Borja Tarraso Marc Balmer wrote: Richard, while we do provide a free operating system, http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html makes it total clear that you are a hypocrite

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:30:28PM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: > while we do provide a free operating system, > http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html > makes it total clear that you are a hypocrite and a liar. And makes it total clear that you are the hypocrite and a liar. Choice quotes from

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Jason Beaudoin
This is what I've learned - and how my perspective has changed - In following this thread, over the last two days: - Stallman cares more about appearances and outward responses than actions - Stallman is a hypocrite, circles himself within his words, and attempts to confuse others in the process

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:30:28 +0100, Marc Balmer wrote: >Richard, > >while we do provide a free operating system, >http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html >makes it total clear that you are a hypocrite and a liar. > >(while others promise the moon, we deliver.) > >- Marc > Ooooh! That one is

Re: : no 4.2-stable package updates??

2007-12-13 Thread Jason Beaudoin
On Dec 13, 2007 1:05 PM, Raimo Niskanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:07:17PM +, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > > First, I'd like to thank those who provided useful responces to my > > query (which started this thread), both on- and off-list. I had missed > > the announc

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Gregg Reynolds
On 12/13/07, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please see > >http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html > > And > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ > Not to mention: http://directory.fsf.org/project/reactOS/ - "ReactOS is a project to create a free operat

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread michael hamerski
On Dec 13, 2007 5:52 PM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Freedom means having control of your own life; "Freedom of choice" is > a partly accurate and partly misleading way to describe that, and > taking that expression too literally leads to mistaken conclusions. > Thus, I say I adv

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Richard Stallman wrote: recently we saw theft of BSD to GPL, and a large part of the GPL community thinks there's no problem with that, that the BSD community is being "petty" to make an issue out of it. I don't think it is wrong in general to relicense code from BSD to GPL. However

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:59:27PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Richard, you are a total hypocrite. You are in here creating a fuss about > > our software, saying it is non-free, when you are doing exactly the same > > thing yourself. > > Please see > >http://www.gnu.org/software/emac

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:51:37AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > his absolutism also causes people to see BSD as a "problem", a > "social failure". > > If some people think that, they did not get it from me. I do not call > BSD either of those things. I say that releasing free softwar

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Gregg Reynolds
On 12/13/07, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Even giving the URLs has the effect of referring people to those > non-free programs. It gives those non-free programs legitimacy, > and thus contradicts the idea that "software should be free". Dadgummit! Now we're going to have to

Intel DQ35MP

2007-12-13 Thread Marcos Laufer
Hello, I've just installed OpenBSD current on an Intel DQ35MP motherboard with a Quad processor, this is the dmesg log. Some devices are not recognized (PCI slot, ethernet, etc) OpenBSD 4.2-current (GENERIC) #558: Tue Nov 20 10:36:15 MST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/G

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Jason McIntyre
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > > Even giving the URLs has the effect of referring people to those > non-free programs. It gives those non-free programs legitimacy, > and thus contradicts the idea that "software should be free". > there are reasons for the sa

Re: : : : rouge IPs / user

2007-12-13 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 12:35:03PM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: : > > > or it might be a program "forgetting" to do a close. > > > > Does select() notify the application of FIN from the other side? > > > > If not, that would explain things, it wouldn't be reasonable for > > httpd to manually try a

Re: Strange line in the routing table after carp failover?

2007-12-13 Thread Charles Price
> yes,that is the result of games carp plays with routes (which it > shouldn not, imo, but anyway). it should finally work as advertised in > -current even with unnumbered carpdevs. > Hi Henning, Updating to -current did the trick. Thanks very much. What was the problem here? Charlie

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread bofh
On Dec 13, 2007 12:53 PM, Tom Rosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 13, 2007 9:51 AM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's really going on is that you are helping them use the non-free > > software, which grants it legitimacy. That is what I object to. > > I don't believe any

Re: : Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: : > > It contains URL's to non-free software, and free Makefiles that > knows how to build that non-free software. But the entire ports > tree has no non-free software in it at all. > > Does that make it non-free?

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Rafael Almeida
On Dec 13, 2007 2:52 PM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If OpenBSD could spin off the ports system (perhaps people could put > it on the Pirate Bay), and break off connection with it, then it would > cease to convey any message from OpenBSD to the users. Then I could > recommend Ope

Re: cvsweb browsing out of sync with latest src?

2007-12-13 Thread Nick Guenther
On 12/10/07, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Nick, sorry to go against you, but do take a look at; > > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/gnu/usr.bin/sudo/ > > > > It's been eliminated since there's a replacement by Todd under a > > non-GNU license. > > > > ~Mayuresh > > Cr

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread mickey
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:58:51AM -0700, Tom Rosso wrote: > On Dec 13, 2007 10:30 AM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Good people of MISC land, could we please drop this thread, its lasted > > way longer than really needed. > > > > I'm enjoying watching RMS struggle and fail to m

Re: Duplicate entries in the output of "mixerctl"

2007-12-13 Thread Rob Lytle
Hi, mixerctl output has some duplicate entries (duplicated names, but different values), which leaves me confused. Here is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $] mixerctl outputs.dac.source=hdaudio outputs.line.source=dac2 outputs.line.mute=off outputs.line=124,124 outputs.line=85,85 outputs.line.d

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Christopher Linn
http://xkcd.com/356/ -- Christopher Linn | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Balmer
Richard, while we do provide a free operating system, http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html makes it total clear that you are a hypocrite and a liar. (while others promise the moon, we deliver.) - Marc

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Balmer
Richard "Hypocrite" Stallmann, we, OpenBSD, are endorsing non-free software? what is that: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html ? old man, stop trolling.

Re: Getting envolved

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Bob Beck wrote: Users who can no invest the effort learn enough to use a simple interface do not deserve a reliable operating system. They deserve windows, and they deserve pop up buttong in their browsers that they click ok blindly for everything. I love this one. May be will need a

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
> Richard, you are a total hypocrite. You are in here creating a fuss about > our software, saying it is non-free, when you are doing exactly the same > thing yourself. Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html And ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ What'

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Theo de Raadt wrote: ... your pants are full of hypocritical poo. There's one for usr.bin/mg/theo.c -- Jack J. Woehr Director of Development Absolute Performance, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 303-443-7000 ext. 527

Re: Duplicate entries in the output of "mixerctl"

2007-12-13 Thread Deanna Phillips
Hi, Amarendra Godbole writes: > mixerctl output has some duplicate entries (duplicated names, but > different values), which leaves me confused. Here is the output: I see... this happens when an item has both input and output levels that can be adjusted. Could you try this diff please? It shou

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 13/12/2007, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you believe that The Pirate Bay is guilty of copyright infringement? > > That is a legal question, not an ethical question. I do not know what > the law of any given country would say about the Pirate Bay. You > would need to ask

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread William Boshuck
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:52:11AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > > > Yes, that's what I was told. I was also told that OpenBSD's ports > > > system includes non-free programs. Is that accurate too? > > (William Boshuck replied:) > > Strictly speaking, no. If you unpack ports.t

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Eric Furman
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:52:10 -0500, "Richard Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Your definition of free is replete with chains; you would deny the > freedom of choice in the name of freedom. > > Freedom means having control of your own life; "Freedom of choice" is > a partly accurate an

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Eric Furman
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:52:01 -0500, "Richard Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > However, it is trivially easy to use the > gNewSense apt system to install unfree software. > > Any general-purpose system can run non-free software, but that's not > the issue. The issue is whether a distr

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Tom Rosso
On Dec 13, 2007 10:30 AM, Mayuresh Kathe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good people of MISC land, could we please drop this thread, its lasted > way longer than really needed. > I'm enjoying watching RMS struggle and fail to make any headway with his argument.

Re: Xorg warnings related to GART

2007-12-13 Thread Rob Lytle
Even the Xorg list archives don't contain any thing like my warnings, so I guess I will just live with it. Rob -- "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds" Bob Marley, Redemption Song

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
> >If a library has a book on [insert-controversial-topic-here], does that > >imply endorsement of said topic by the library or by someone who reads > > the > >book? Should the library burn copies of books on such topics to protect > >the citizenry? Absolutely not. > > > > A syst

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/12/13 11:51, Richard Stallman wrote: > I'm talking about something else: what the system distro suggests > that the user do. OpenBSD does not suggest that people use ports. We suggest people use binary packages. With two exceptions (which look like they're marked in error since their lice

Re: Real men don't attack straw men

2007-12-13 Thread Ben Calvert
Would everyone in the room who maintain a complete, working operating system please raise their hands? would everyone who is forced to co-opt or recommend other people's operating systems... because their own is unfinished... please go away and write some code or something? thank you very

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