From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 27 16:37:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD417AA for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 16:37:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dt71@gmx.com) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC57DAB for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 16:37:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.80] ([81.182.31.67]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M2ojS-1UPtDN1aPm-00scQ3 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 18:37:43 +0200 Message-ID: <51A38BCD.3040802@gmx.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 18:37:33 +0200 From: dt71@gmx.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 SeaMonkey/2.17 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "injunction" on the use of GA References: <519DD877.7000808@gmx.com> <519EA08E.6090902@bluerosetech.com> <51A383B9.9010204@gmx.com> In-Reply-To: <51A383B9.9010204@gmx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:DGQPczfqUP++cuCE6w9Af4YFqs/AfFEWjaTsDSCx6DxX7i+i6kn 9Pg1CUS+WIBMHlBIKFz3PdWJxdmQQEMZb4ierxoC0ilAugBTHErfXGKKHlEo8mh0YkFd47G eI5xZLOEy1k74xLHU/P24qIc8IWXYkM9k07G86urbSJJ1siRpRKRZH0bXVST0M5Z8OIRiAO 6iEDUtgX1MzMAo06MFroA== X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 16:37:47 -0000 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.