From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 6 13:44:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13753 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:44:47 -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 NAA13685 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:44:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id OAA15729; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 14:44:19 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981006144211.042df4b0@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 14:42:44 -0600 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: RMS on UDI Cc: Wes Peters , Jerry Hicks , FreeBSD Chat In-Reply-To: <20249.907705735@time.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You mean -- gasp! -- we AGREE on something? ;-) --Brett At 01:28 PM 10/6/98 -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> 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