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GNU-Darwin: Three Years of Free Software Activism

Posted by timothy on from the motivations-and-results dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Who do GNU-Darwin Think They Are? by proclus · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That was a troll folks, and full of lies too. Mod down please. (hello trollaxor)

  2. GNU-Darwin is what happens... by Xenex · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ...when a troll writes a software distribution.

    Now, to quote myself:
    GNU-Darwin is a project founded by a person that goes by the name proclus. This proclus character spends a fair majority of his time replying to valid criticism of his project on sites such as Slashdot and MacSlash.

    Unfortunately, this time would be much better spent working on the actual GNU-Darwin project; GNU-Darwin has nothing to offer that hasn't already been done better by either OpenDarwin or Fink.
    This "article" is merely another case of proclus wasting time advocating instead of coding.

    GNU-Darwin is totally irrelevant. If it disappeared tomorrow, no-one would notice. Mac users don't want it, and Free Software advocates don't want Macs.

    This junk was rejected as crap elsewhere. It's just that OSNews are happy to run with any crap.
  3. Re:Who do GNU-Darwin Think They Are? by proclus · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    Hello Trollaxor. The Free Darwin campaign is over. Here is the correct link, and from the article as well.



    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/06/1729 21 3


    We are developing actively for the ppc platform, including OS 10.3. You should know these things, of all people, so I can only conclude that you are deliberately spreading lies about the Distro. Ahh well, it appears that the good news is drowning out your factitious message.


    Regards,

    proclus


    http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

  4. Activist Distribution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I can just picture this guy, Stallman, and the eight other GNU-Darwing users sitting around some place resembling a Cambodian re-education camp espousing the evils of proprietary software, singing Kumbaya, and trying to convince people if all software was GPL the world would be utopia.

    Maybe if these people would code more and stop talking politics less Hurd would actually get done.

    As someone else mentioned, Stallman has said that he would like to see proprietary software illegal. Smells like communism to me. Good thing that nobody takes him seriously.