Homer wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Terry Porter spake thusly:
>
>> This may be the reason Moonlight does not exist as a *released*
>> Ebuild package for Gentoo, as Gentoo builds everything from source.
>
> And also why it can never be distributed by any distro except Novell's,
> since one must be a direct "downstream recipient" of that software from
> Novell:
>
> http://www.novell.com/linux/microsoft/covenant_silverlight.html
>
> Therefore this is not Free Software, since it lacks at least one of the
> necessary Four Freedoms (the right to distribute).
<doh!> of course. Sorry, I read your outstanding install attempt doco and
promptly forgot!
>
> Although it is rather curious to note, that someone by the name of Jo
> Shields seems to be attempting to poison Debian with Moonlight:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501190
>
> Quite how he intends to succeed in this ambition, I'm not entirely sure,
> given the above covenant. A more important question, though, is "why"?
>
I can think of one possible reason .
--
If we wish to reduce our ignorance, there are people we will
indeed listen to. Trolls are not among those people, as trolls, more or
less by definition, *promote* ignorance.
Kelsey Bjarnason, C.O.L.A. 2008
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