On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 21:26 +0100, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > Dom, 2006-10-15 às 15:12 -0500, J.Moore escreveu: > > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 08:22 +0100, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote: > > > > > So the question remains, and it's a serious one, from a serious and > > > committed Fedora user and developer; is the Fedora Project really > > > Free? > > > > Freedom appears to have a lot of different meanings. Personally, I think > > the definition of freedom espoused by the OpenBSD project matches most > > closely with mine; closer to an "absolute" version of freedom. > > > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq1.html#ReallyFree > > I am a big fan of OpenBSD's PF and a few other things, but this policy > of giving some users the power to abuse others seems like a shamefull > thing to be proud of, which is why prefer most GNU/Linux distributions > to *BSDs. I don't think it's a policy - it's more like a culture of arrogance. I agree that it's nothing to be proud of, and I also agree that it's a big negative for many, myself included. But personalities aside, this doesn't change the fact that it is "more free" than other free distros. > Some do think like you do, until they are "backstabbed" and then come > back to the GPL or LGPL (like WINE, for instance). I've had a round or two with the wankers - you have to develop an attitude to take the bad with the good. And survival demands that you not let the bastards get you down :)
