From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 10:35:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06C0B37BF42 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 10:35:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from asme.org ([216.252.137.81]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA268C; Sat, 13 May 2000 12:33:57 -0400 Message-ID: <391D9372.67FF28A9@asme.org> Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 12:40:02 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? References: <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message