From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 13 12:54:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4C1B37B406 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 87568 invoked by uid 100); 13 Sep 2001 19:54:51 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15265.3851.444194.475923@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 14:54:51 -0500 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Helping victims of terror In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010913023437.045fae70@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010913002733.05261930@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010912203732.0492cc80@localhost> <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> <20010912225428.A9675@citusc17.usc.edu> <4.3.2.7.2.20010913021952.045974f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010913023437.045fae70@localhost> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass types: > But I don't have time to participate in a long, drawn-out flamefest, Good. I'll just make my point, and we can both agree to stop, right? > nor do the people who read this list want to read one, I'm sure. > Again, the point of my original message -- which I think (no, KNOW) > is quite valid and germane -- is that mindless, ideological hatred > is a danger. The most blatant example of mindless ideological hatred I've run into recently are attacks on GNU, coupled with personal venomous attacks on RMS. To use the same - truly ugly - analogy, if RMS is a mindless terrorist attacking innocent civilians, then Brett is a right-wing fanatic advocating nuking the suspects in retaliation. Bill Moran has it right - there's room for all kinds of licensing models. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message