“Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed”

Re:“Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed” by nailer on Saturday June 06, 2015 @12:26PM (#9671309)

Parent poster means free as in speech. Theo chooses to take it as free as in beer. Love OpenBSD but Theo should have thought before getting angry.

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Re:“Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed” by Redoubts on Saturday June 06, 2015 @01:38PM (#9671557)

Pretty sure there's a dig at the GPL in this very post:

  A few other firmwares are slightly less free.  Meaning they are free
  for money, but they try to stipulate subtle rules we do not want to
  impact the freedom of our source tree with. ... OpenBSD
  has a tool built in which will download those, so that our base source
  tree remains full of freedom.

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Re:“Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed” by icebraining on Saturday June 06, 2015 @12:36PM (#9671352)

I'm pretty sure Theo understood what the parent poster meant.

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Re:“Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed” by nailer on Saturday June 06, 2015 @07:20PM (#9672710)

I'm sure Theo understood too. But Theo didn't say 'I don't share your definition of free', he just said the parent was wrong and that it was free, which doesn't seem like a very adult way of conveying his disagreement.

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Re:“Blob-free OpenBSD kernel needed” by Sanddancer on Saturday June 06, 2015 @01:01PM (#9671440)

Theo completely understands. The problem is that a certain contingent of people clutch their pearls at the mere thought that they may be tempted from the way of Free Software by having a file that tells how to get a file that may offend their sensibilities. Theo treats his users like adults, who can make decisions for themselves, unlike certain other parties.

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