Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 09:13:47 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction Message-ID: <199807221513.JAA04373@lariat.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <19980722020343.C15764@notabene.zer0.org> References: <199807220608.AAA00964@obie.softweyr.com> <19980721184615.A15764@notabene.zer0.org> <199807220608.AAA00964@obie.softweyr.com>
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At 02:03 AM 7/22/98 -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote: >I _have_ read several of RMS's essays as well as the diatribes, as >you (mean to) say, that come with FSFware. I don't really consider >what RMS says as "ranting" and I worry about your seemingly- >automatic association of "communist" with "drivel". First of all, >it's not communist, it's socialist. Nope, it's communist. He wants all software development to be done by collectives that are subservient to the Supreme Soviet (oops, I mean the FSF). >While some of RMS's ideas are definitely on the edge of acceptability, >you can't deny that he has some fantastic thoughts about information >and property. "fantastic" as in "the stuff of fantasy." Richard still adheres to the extreme notion that the concept intellectual property is fundamentally wrong and evil, as are businesses that build intellectual capital. And, of course, now that the MacArthur Foundation has given him a "genius grant," he believes himself to be "Saint Stallman." --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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