Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > It rankles me how people like to make jokes about RMS. It's like > making jokes about freedom. Maybe in the future, the majority of > people will finally accept that software (and scientific knowledge in > general) is a part of the "commons" to which every person has a right. > Until then, the future of software freedom is tenuous. (Technically, > free software is superior (of course, everyone agrees, right?), but > the battle has moved to legality and ideology. Free software is > "communist", "anti-capitalist", "friendly to terrorists" and most > importantly "harmful to the market"). > > He isn't "requiring" that distro's be called GNU/Linux, just asking. > Ok, he's asking persistently. Yes, very persistently. > > Give the man his due. Considering what he's done single-handedly, > hacking Lisp, hacking Emacs, hacking gcc, starting the FSF, maybe what > he's asking is reasonable. Maybe he even deserves some dictatorial > powers? > [...]
Thank you for saying that. Well said. I've had the privilege of having Richard Stallman as a house guest, a couple of times, when I lived in San Francisco (in the CoffeeNet building that you see quite a bit of, in the movie). He's a very funny and likeable fellow, quite aside from the debt of gratitude we all owe him. He's also a very, very determined person, and God bless him for that. -- Cheers, Ever wonder why the _same people_ Rick Moen make up _all_ the conspiracy theories? [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
