Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 12:40:02 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <391D9372.67FF28A9@asme.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
>
...
>
> Sure one may not agree with a lot of what RMS says, but there's a lot
> of crap spoken about him in the FreeBSD world which I'm not going to
> get into a flamewar about this time. If you want to know what he
> thinks, read his writings. Read his recent Slashdot interview. You
> may hate everything he says but you can't call him a communist unless
> you have no idea what he's about or what communism is about.
>
Been there, done that. Even when I haven't met him in person, my opinion
of his ideas hasn't changed at all after I wrote my article.
FWIW, JIC if you haven't heard news Colombia (where I will leave until
August), I am fully aware of communism also.
cheers,
Pedro.
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