Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 23:00:12 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com> To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>, <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Shut up and show them the code Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990702230012.009bf100@mail.bfm.org> In-Reply-To: <000001bec4c7$6a0597c0$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <3.0.6.32.19990702115124.0099b480@mail.bfm.org>
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At 13:13 02-07-1999 -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > Sounds to me like he's simply advocating intellectual dishonesty. > > The thrust of his article is that RMS's rhetoric sounds communistic to >people, so even if you agree with him, you shouldn't talk about it. You >should instead pretend that you don't agree. That way you'll bring more >people into the Open Source movement. I had to re-read the article, but I do not see that in there. I get the impression he agrees with RMS on some points but really disagrees on others. He also wrote it as a reaction to RMS's articles in which RMS clearly states there are essential differences between his ideas and goals and those of Open Software. I don't know, but I do not see the intellectual dishonesty in Eric Raymond's article. > > This same sort of dishonesty is what disgusted me in the Libertarian >movement. Well, as chairman of Democratic Party in my county, I prefer not to get into this. :-) Adam --- Gracula v3.0 just released. Don't miss it. Visit Count Gracula's Gallery: http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/gallery/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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