mcb, inc. wrote:
Watching the latest flame war, I can't help thinking that as founders of their respective projects Theo and RMS are trapped in a jail of rigid consistency and absolutism demanded by children and utopians.
Well, yes and no.
Theo's absolutism has kept OpenBSD pretty much the last blob-free OS in the Free Software world. RMS's absolutism has kept alive an ideal that launched the mainstream open source movement. So it's not non-functional. It's emotionally hard on the individuals concerned, and often emotionally hard on us who bask in the reflected glow of these geniuses :-). But it all seems to work out in practice. Has for a cuple of decades now, give or take a few years. -- Jack J. Woehr Director of Development Absolute Performance, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 303-443-7000 ext. 527
