GNU-Darwin: Three Years of Free Software Activism

JigSaw writes "The GNU-Darwin Distribution is a free BSD operating system and a popular source of free software for Mac OS X and Darwin-x86 users, but it is also a platform for digital activism. Founder Michael L. Love wrote an editorial speaking about the roots, goals, problems and just about everything about GNU-Darwin. Free Software is at the core of GNU-Darwin and also anything political that has an impact on digital and even rights. Is this the first truly politically oriented BSD OS?" Nope.

Happy to be a part

[Galileo430]

Seems silly such an article is written about "3 years" of free software. Since clearly this "free" stuff has been around for quite a bit longer.

I see Darwin as FreeBSD's little brother that just happens to have picked up a nice job working for a respectable corporation. The only reason why anyone really cares about this distro is because Apple does. Not that that is a bad thing.

Re:Political?

[cscx]

The OpenBSD people HATE the GPL. The only GPLed package in OpenBSD is GCC... and that is slated for removal eventually.

When the maintainer of BSD's ipf pulled a 180 and changed the license to something more restrictive (I'm at a loss for details right now), the OpenBSD people told him to fuck off, and they wrote their own firewall, now known to everyone as pf. Pretty sad that it had to happen, since pf is now regarded as one of the best firewalls around...

Michael Love = troll

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know why the fuck this douchebag and his GNU-Darwin hard-on are allowed anywhere near slashdot. Check his homepage if you want. He's a scientologist.

Re:Who do GNU-Darwin Think They Are?

[Juanvaldes]

You were saying? [slashdot.org]

Re:Not quite "fair" politically.

[b17bmbr]

i am reminded of that old saying, "what's the best part of banging your head against a wall? when you stop."

trying to ask anti-war folks to use a little logic or reason and look at the facts is just banging your head against a wall. for all their blathering, the truth is that there is not a single lie bush told. there were intel failures for sure, but the antis are just full of bush hatred. period. they were nowhere to be found when clinton bombed serbia for 78 days, killing many civilians, and destroying the infrastructure of serbia for a presumed war criminal, whose mass graves we can't seem to find. hmmm...where's the story there? yet, when mass graves turn up all over iraq, and kay's interim report shows definite weapons programs, even if nothing is found, and yet you want these people to use a little common sense. their boy clark, suddenly an anti, was fired from nato. one of the reasons. he wanted the airport where the russian troops were, and he wanted to go to war against the russian troops. WTF!! british general refused, and our own general staff backed the british general. when shelton fired him, the story was that he was using the campaign to push his own personal agenda, and turn it into a larger campaign, wanting to be another schwarzkopf type. but where's the mention of that? hmmm...

hey, cruise /. for the tech news, and for kicks. most of the people here have no idea what saddam really wanted. to be the caliph of the abassid empire. anyone on /. who konws of the abassids probably thought the war was a pretty good idea. but hey, i'm a history teacher by trade, geek by desire!!

Re:What the fuck is an "Englobulator"???

[Anonymous Coward]

Acording to the dude's website, he is a Scientologist. I believe "englobulator" is some jargon borrowed from Scientology.

Re:Political?

[Geekboy(Wizard)]

That wasn't a political decision, but a legal one. OpenBSD legally could not distribute IPF (because of the modifications they made). OpenBSD asked IPF to change the license, it was not changed, so IPF was dropped.

(Note: I am using the names of the projects as proper nouns)