Re: Rant about the flaming here (Was: Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0)

To: Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Rant about the flaming here (Was: Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0)
From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:52:41 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 20020409175241.V1914@ns>
Mail-followup-to: Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20020409214251.GD3223@celeron.dekkers>; from jeroen@dekkers.cx on Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:42:51PM +0200
References: <20020326145055.GA15766@richard.godisch.de> <20020326143332.GA8247@comcast.net> <87bsdbexxv.fsf@pD9E48F0B.dip.t-dialin.net> <[🔎] 20020408160311.GA5796@vh224401.truman.edu> <[🔎] 20020408214742.GD548@celeron.dekkers> <[🔎] 20020409182547.GC2473@celeron.dekkers> <[🔎] 20020409192038.GW29933@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> <[🔎] 20020409194859.GA3030@celeron.dekkers> <[🔎] 20020409165246.T1914@ns> <[🔎] 20020409214251.GD3223@celeron.dekkers>

* Jeroen Dekkers (jeroen@dekkers.cx) wrote:
> <CAPSLOCK>
> THE PROBLEM HE IS HAVING IS THAT VMWARE DOESN'T PROVIDE A PATCH FOR
> THE OLD VERSION HE IS USING. WITH FREE SOFTWARE, HE COULD JUST FIX THE
> PROBLEM ITSELF, WITH NON-FREE SOFTWARE THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE. THE CAUSE
> OF HIS PROBLEM IS THUS THAT HE DOESN'T HAVE THE FREEDOM TO MODIFY THE
> SOFTWARE.
> </capslock>

His problem is that glibc changed and broke software he was using.

Free vs. non-free has nothing to do with it.

Sorry you missed that.

	Stephen

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