Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 18:37:33 +0200 From: dt71@gmx.com To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "injunction" on the use of GA Message-ID: <51A38BCD.3040802@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <51A383B9.9010204@gmx.com> References: <519DD877.7000808@gmx.com> <519EA08E.6090902@bluerosetech.com> <51A383B9.9010204@gmx.com>
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OpenBSD is an operating system that focuses on security, and the non-use of GA on the openbsd.org website reflects this. It has been always thought that security is also a key point of FreeBSD. For example, the FreeBSD developers also believe in full disclosures, a (package set) usage reporter tool is made optional and highly-anonymous to users, and so on. Such is not the case with the main website of FreeBSD as of recent times: it now uses GA. The BSD license imposes only a minimal legal burden on each individual user. In contrast, the GPL is viral and forces users to do certain things, but those things generally aim at supporting humanity as a whole, not a proprietary company like Google. It is still hard to believe that a website developer of freebsd.org has broken the previously followed design and moral principles, and that this has not yet been "brought back into shape" by someone with appropriate power. Perhaps others -- notably, the OpenBSD people and the FSF -- would like to hear about what direction FreeBSD is now going in.
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