So last night, my girlfriend’s dad gave me an old XP machine they didn’t have a need for. Turns out it has fairly decent specs, so I got to work installing FreeBSD on it. In the next few days, i shall be turning it into my new web server, and possibly putting my blog back on it (although it’ll be slower to serve it there, i can at least install plugins, which I’m still pissed off about with this blog). In the mean time though, i have been installing pfSense on the machine that was my web server. the specs of the old one...
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I assert though that the GPL does not give us freedom, merely different restrictions. I even assert that it does not give us all of the freedoms listed above. In this post, I will argue that the GPL is inherently flawed when it comes to freeing software. My good IRC friend Beelsebob decided independently to start a new blog, on the exact same say I did, but hopefully I Beelsebob’d him this time!* Anyway, he’s made a better start than I have by writing a nice article on why the GPL is in fact not free, but just restricting you in...
