From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 5 20:59:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAB20928 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:59:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20917 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:59:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id VAA08785; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 21:59:18 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981005215430.042f4e90@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 21:58:12 -0600 To: Greg Lehey , Mike Smith , FreeBSD Chat From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: RMS on UDI In-Reply-To: <19981006120336.M27781@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199810051613.JAA03441@dingo.cdrom.com> <199810051613.JAA03441@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 12:03 PM 10/6/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >(moved to -chat) > >On Monday, 5 October 1998 at 9:13:29 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: >> >> Here's RMS and his own personal brand of FUD again, this time coming up >> with good reasons why UDI will make us all a cargo cult. Actually, he >> doesn't talk about us at all, just those G-cattle. >> >> http://slashdot.org/articles/98/10/04/2211242.shtml > >Is this interesting? rms is getting rather predictable. > He's getting looney. In this tirade, he basically says that anything that would cause Linux to coexist or cooperate with non-GPLed software is e-vile. He also shows a lack of technical knowledge by claiming that using a UDI driver would involve statically linking it into the kernel. Guys, we gotta pull FreeBSD out of its rut, if for no other reason than to provide an alternative to this lunacy. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message