Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Dec 2007 16:32 UTC, submitted by lmvaz
Richard Stallman sent a message to OpenBSD-Misc, explaining why he doesn't recommend OpenBSD. "From what I have heard, OpenBSD does not contain non-free software (though I am not sure whether it contains any non-free firmware blobs). However, its ports system does suggest non-free programs, or at least so I was told when I looked for some BSD variant that I could recommend. I therefore exercise my freedom of speech by not including OpenBSD in the list of systems that I recommend to the public." His mail started a huge thread (that's just page 1) and since then he's under a blast of messages from Theo de Raadt and the OpenBSD users. De Raadt replied: "Richard, you are wrong. You said very clearly in your interview that the ports tree contains non-free software. It does not. It is just a scaffold of Makefiles containing URLs, and an occasional patch here or there. You are just plain wrong. And you are not enough of a man to admit that you are wrong. I may be unfriendly at times, but you are a power-misusing hypocritical liar who attacks projects that try harder than any others to only make free software available. Shame on you."
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Moral is everything.
Doody?
Moral is what makes mankind exist.
I would argue that it is, in fact, sexual intercourse?
Moral is what mde people resist a certain person in the 1930'es and 1940'es.
You mean those freaky inflatable clowns?
No really, we didn't care at all about Hitler or what he was doing. We (Americans) ignored it completely, the genocide didn't bother us at all. It actually had nothing to do with us going to war. See, Japan attacked us, and that made us angry, so we all struck out for revenge. How does that fit into your "Morality is everything" bit?
Moral is what made the American people fight in 1770'es and 1780'es.
I'm pretty sure that was the result of Americans being angry about unfair taxation. I'm not sure taxes can really be placed anywhere on the scale of "morality." If you really want to argue "morality" on that issue, one could make a pretty strong case on how moral it is to forcibly remove the rulers who paid for your colony. Is it moral to blow up a bank who gave you a mortgage just because they choose to change your interest rate to 20%?
Also note how we kicked the British out, then proceeded to keep slaves and murder Indians. Fun times.
Moral belongs in EVERYTHING.
Whorehouses? The execution chamber? My septic system?
If you don't like that, one must doubt your humanity.
I don't think it's very "moral" of you to demand that other people think less of me just because I call BS on nonsensical posts?