From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 6 13:29:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09910 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09885 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:29:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20253; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:28:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Brett Glass cc: Wes Peters , Jerry Hicks , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: RMS on UDI In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 14:19:47 MDT." <4.1.19981006141546.0430a1d0@mail.lariat.org> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 13:28:55 -0700 Message-ID: <20249.907705735@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > RMS, however, thinks the whole CONCEPT of sharing drivers with > non-open-source OSes is heresy. Especially if -- heaven forbid! -- > the manufacturer doesn't supply source. The foolishness of such an attitude transcends even that. In RMS's world, for example, it would be preferable to go out and buy some piece of new hardware (say a camera or scanner with some custom interface) and have only Windows and possibly Macintosh support on the floppies provided with the kit, just as things are now. The user's best interests are sacrificed on the altar of RMS's vision of a perfect world where things are either done "correctly" or not at all. -Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message