On Friday 01 February 2002 08:40, Jacob Shaw wrote: > On 1/31/02 10:44 PM, "Larry Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suspect that RMS has taken to using this as a test of > > ideological purity > > <bsd bigot> > > You know... Jordan Hubbard isn't like this and his OS is truly free, > as in, you can take the source and do WHATEVER you want (Just ask the > Windows 2000 kernel & network IO teams, ahem). > > Time to start passing out those FreeBSD CD's at the meetings! > > </bsd bigot>
I think that RMS sees the use/non-use of GNU/Linux as an issue more along the lines of ignoring racial/ethnic slurs -- as when someone, who in the presence of a vocal bigot, quitely seethes inside rather than speaking out, is really part of the problem even though they see themselves as virtuous. The idea being the need to make people aware of the risks involved in letting closed source solutions gain too much leverage in the software libre world. At some point, closed solutions could overtake the very core (roots/heart) of the system.
