Re: GNUStep: An Apology for Announcing Donation of Proprietary Software to the Project

[Chris B . Vetter]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:30:03 -0600
"Scott Francis" <scott.francis@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
[...]
> 3.  the logical extension of this thing seems difficult to
>     understand to me... the position that you should not buy
>     software seems interesting to me... ie - don't buy the operating
>     system, use the free one.  or help write the free one.  so far
>     so good.  but how about the hardware? do we all need to use only
>     free hardware?  how do we acquire such free hardware?  how about
>     the firmware that runs much of the hardware? does that need to
>     be opensource as well?  

You could always use OpenBIOS
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/openbios/)

> adam, i understand why you are declining accepting the gift from
> vmware,and that it doesn't fit with the gnu paradigm, but i don't
> think it makes you a "dolt" :)  there are people who are wanting
> to contribute to gnustep who are not quite as committed to GNU in
> general - ie, they use windows (god forbid) and other paid-for
> software, but are also contributing to free software projects.
[...]

There are probably a couple of people, who prefer a BSD-style
license, amongst GNUstep users/developers ... nevertheless, a
quarrel over which license GNUstep should be put under won't
help "the cause" ...

-- 
Chris