On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 12:47, Ely Levy wrote: > well I guess it changed a bit from the intreview of his. > too bad I didn't keep the link it was long ago. > but I remember something about saying that if israel would invite him he > would never come here cause we act like SA
This already happened to me several times, enough that I'll remark on it, that certain people (sometime from the media) represent RMS, his views and behavior, in very different ways then my own personal first hand impressions of him. Now, it can only be accepted that some difference of views will exists, but this goes beyond this. Also, although I admire many things that RMS does or the way he thinks I do not idolize him. I guess the best advice is - don't listen to other people impression, talk to the man in person (or read his own words) and judge for yourselves. Having said, my personal opinion is that he is a very very smart person which has a very far reaching vision. The problem is that because he sees things so clearly he has a hard time explaining to people how he gets to his conclusions, which are really very very logical on their own, and this makes his views seems absurd at the time. However, 5 years after the fact you see exactly what he was thinking of and then you say: "Hey?! what do you know? he was right after all...". After this happens a couple of times you begin to appreciate him much more. If you want to have a taste of what I've just written, go look in these two links and note the dates in which they we're published/happened: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html http://www.freesklyarov.org/ Also ask yourself what had been the result of the latter if RMS and like minded people haven't been rising up to support our rights. For me, it was a eye opener. Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com "When you walk up to the guard on a train and ask if it is the Swansea train, you do not expect the reply `I don't know, I'm about to phone the driver to find out where we are going'. -- Alan Cox, the diary. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
