On 4/12/08 10:57 PM, Jacob Meuser wrote:
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 04:04:34PM +0300, Lars Nood?n wrote:
5) Cultivating antagonism between allies *is* a key part of the strategy
used by the main opponent to OpenBSD. It wastes resources. In
contrast, constructive competition leads to improvement.
opponents, competition? Lars, you just don't get it.
btw, my main beef with rms is that when the ath5k thing went down,
I asked rms in personal email to make a generic statement about
respecting copyrights. not comdemn or "choose sides", just say
something along the lines of "despite differences in beliefs of
freedom, the most important thing for all of free software is
respect for copyright and chosen licensing."
and he thought that might be a good idea. then he suddenly decided,
because OpenBSD was involved, that he would not make such a statement.
he went on to say that he could care less if OpenBSD developers
"drop dead".
I was trying to get rms to be a hero, actually. I thought building
flame war was bad for everyone. but he refused, because he is
personally prejudice against OpenBSD. plain and simple.
The problem is: He has his theory to reach a goal, and it's very hard to
admit for him that an other more elegant theory works better for the
same goal.
Worse, that he considered it proved for at least 3 items that gNewsense
violates his own rules and that the whole discussion opened a few more
morally very bad things (sources for emacs for windows on his servers
which needs proprietary software).
don't know about you, but imo, any self proclaimed defender of freedom,
with such prejudice, is not at all a defender of freedom, but some
one abusing the idea freedom for personal gain. one of the most vile
types of people, imo.
It's quite ugly: He makes a living by keeping nonsense alive.
Picturing him with flies around his head is funny however I believe it
is smarter to keep pointing on the fact that his use and explanation of
the word "free" doesn't comply with any dictionary on this planet.
+++chefren
