From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 14 17: 0:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F57637B719 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA18418; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:00:12 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010314170008.00d86960@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:00:04 -0700 To: Mike Meyer From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again Cc: Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <15023.64309.798752.556764@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010314132512.04acb100@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010313211657.00e294a0@localhost> <3AADC096.DE27817@outpost.co.nz> <4.3.2.7.2.20010311235053.00e26140@localhost> <20010305205030.G80474@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010305125259.00cfdae0@localhost> <20010305142108.A17269@marx.marvic.chum> <4.3.2.7.2.20010306011342.045fb360@localhost> <20010306081025.A22143@marx.marvic.chum> <4.3.2.7.2.20010306092612.00b79f00@localhost> <20010306174618.N32515@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010311230800.00e19bd0@localhost> <15020.28993.192354.986367@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010312223234.0445f3a0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010314132512.04acb100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 04:13 PM 3/14/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >I don't see him encouraging people to copy things illegally, I see him >providing using less inflamatory language to describe it. The original version of the essay was more strident about advocating piracy. Richard toned it down after being warned that stongly urging people to commit crimes was not a wise move. So, he began to exhort people to "share" and "help your neighbor." Of course, these are nothing more than code phrases for piracy, which Stallman actively advocates in forums that he considers to be friendly to the idea. Some other choice quotes: "Note that the GNU Project recommends avoiding the term piracy since it implies sharing copies is somehow illegitimate." "One basis for society is that of helping your neighbor -- but in the software world this is piracy." Stallman believes that the end justifies the means. He will stop at nothing, no matter how unethical, to hurt the fortunes of programmers who seek to make money from their work. He is even willing to be hypocritical -- that's what the GPL is about. It makes software very unfree, yet he -- in unabashed Doublespeak -- calls software licensed under it "Free Software" (note the dogmatic capital letters). --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message