greetings in total agreement like, i think that's pretty well it zane - rms is one of those people with a really neat(? well interesting) side effect, in that how people react to him (what they say about him and their take on his work/words) can tell you lot more about them than most anything else that they may do.
i don't think i've ever read him saying anything overtly or even deliber- ately "political" in the standard sense, except when he's been pushed into it. his whole thing is about free software - anything else we all get out of it in a larger political sense or whatever is all by implication and from our own take on things - well at least that's how i've always seen it as being .... mind you the olde market positioning routines that doc searles and some of the other oss dudes go in for do certainly help to stir up already muddied waters, especially in an environment scarce recovered from 40 something years of frigid foxhole hyperbole. cheers peter ================================== On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 22:40:34 +1300 Zane Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Err... no I don't think RMS is a Libertarian. > > I'm pretty sure he thinks that the government should have a role in > software freedom. IIRC he has mentioned this before. > > I think that would rule out anarchism also wouldn't it? > I get the impression he has socialist leanings but it would be very hard > to put him in a pre-prepared political box. > > Jason I know you Americans still have that post MacArthy anti-Communist > thing going on :-) which is why his enemies in USA accuse him of it. >
