Torsten Duwe wrote:
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Hi Richard,
I normally do not reply to threads started by someone (arc@gnu.org) who is unwilling to state his/her real name and announces that he has blacklisted the e-mail address of the founder of coreboot.
"arc" whatever it may be, is not anti-Ron, he (or she, or it...) is anti-gmail, which is something I can fully understand. But obviously I also agree with you that someone with a real opinion should have a real name, too.
Torsten
I didn't reply before because I didn't fully understand that statement. :)
We are on the internet and I have the right to express my opinion without revealing my name and surname. I have the right to maintain my privacy if I wish and I have the right to express my opinion too, if I wish.
This is freedom of speech and it's a shame that people like you who are part of such a project don't understand this.
:(
I didn't want to offend or ignore anybody, trust me. As you can read on my personal website: www.chi3.org I am an italian free software and free culture activist. I was part of the Winston Smith Project too: http://pws.winstonsmith.info/
Since 2001 I'm active in Italy to defend free software and spread digital freedom. Some days ago I found on the FSF website a call for help the free bios project and so I decided to write to Intel via the form on their website.
As Richard said, this is not the best way to push them so I wrote to you because I REALLY want to help you. I even ordered an OLPC because of the free bios in it.
We are really fighting for the same cause my friends. I wrote to the coreboot list to ask how can I help you, how can I make some pressure or whatever.
I don't know how to write code but I still want to help so if you had some suggestions for me I will accept them.
Thank you very much for all your wonderful work and sorry if I caused some confusion.