Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 02:33:33 -0400 From: "Joel N. Weber II" <devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My opinion about freebsd (fwd) Message-ID: <199707130633.CAA20588@psilocin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <33C83C6C.3715@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> (message from Pedro Giffuni on Sat, 12 Jul 1997 19:24:44 -0700)
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(Before someone says GNU is a replacement for communism, remember this is all IMHO) If GNU was communist, then the government would have declared that everyone would use GNU, and Richard Stallman would be in charge of software development in the US. I recently spent a week with RMS, and although I respect him, I don't htink I'd want to live in a world which he controlled. I'm not sure I consider all the repetitive OS development productive, but I'd certainly rather see the same SCSI driver written seprately by the BSD and GPL communities rather than have the government mandating that everyone use VMS and nothing else. I wish everything could work by anarchy. But I think money will always be dominant. I don't think we can get free food the way we have free software, because software is inherently easy to copy, and restirctions that make software non-free are artificial. By contrast, food production has always been time-consuming.
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