Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Re: No Blog without Puffy in FreeBSD Forums

Sorry

No Blob without Puffy

Em quarta-feira, 2 de agosto de 2017, SOUL_OF_ROOT 55 <
soulofroot55@gmail.com> escreveu:
> Theo de Raadt said in the past:
>
> "3. mail from Theo, 12.03.2007 03:00:
>
> Did you even think about the fact that there are only two operating
> systems that ship without blobs?
>
> OpenBSD
>
> Debian (and derived systems)"
>
>
> "> > You claim you don't get any support from the other BSDs and now a
>> > group of other BSD-users starts that campaign and you complain.
>> > Where's the beef?
>
> You are not one of "the other BSDs". Your campaign will not support
> more documentation. It puts the name of BLOB-including operating
> systems on a poster saying that they are anti-blob. That's a bald
> lie, and it undermines our effort.
>
> OpenBSD distinguishes itself on the fact that it does not include
> blobs. Most other operating systems are completely fine with
> incorporating blobs. The other projects you are showing on the poster
> specifically include blobs. They do NOT help us get documentation."
>
> reference:
http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/No-Blob-without-Puffy-td36562.html
>
> I wonder:
>
> Did you even think about the fact that there are only two operating
> systems that ship without blobs?
>
> OpenBSD still distinguishes itself on the fact that it does not include
> blobs?
>
> I posted this topic also in FreeBSD Forums:
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/61858/
>
> I wonder what Theo de Raadt would say about it.
>
> Thank you
>

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