From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 5 20: 3:38 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 77DC337B42C for ; Sat, 5 May 2001 20:03:35 -0700 (PDT) (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 VAA11971; Sat, 5 May 2001 21:03:27 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010505205342.00c3d2a0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 21:03:22 -0600 To: Joe Warner , "G. Adam Stanislav" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Is Brett Glass to easy on RMS? In-Reply-To: <01050519474102.00516@blackmirror.xmission.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20010505194927.00875100@mail85.pair.com> <3.0.6.32.20010505194927.00875100@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 07:29 PM 5/5/2001, Joe Warner wrote: >I'm by no means defending RMS but why would he want to do >this? What's his motivation? Joe, have you ever read the book "Hackers," by Steven Levy? Levy does an excellent job of documenting the events that led to RMS' vendetta. There are a couple of significant events in RMS' life that are NOT included because they happened later... RMS' nervous breakdown, for example, which happened a few years after the book was written. But the events in the book laid the groundwork for his monomaniacal drive to destroy all commercial software companies and programmers. I read it the same year I first encountered RMS (who was, at the time, living in the apartment of an acquaintance). It explained a LOT, though it still didn't prepare me for some of the more vehement things RMS said during our first conversation. >Also, and this may be off topic but more and more lately, I've >noticed the ugly head of Linux vs BSD and vice versa popping >up on the web. I realize it's something that's gone on for a long >time but..why? Why isn't it BSD/Linux vs MS? I think that this depends on the forum. In forums such as Slashdot, where contempt for Microsoft's products is nearly universal, we see a lot of Linux vs. BSD debates. In the rest of the world, it's vs. MS. Folks who are not programmers do not understand either the licensing or technological differences among the UNIX-like OSes.... It's all over their heads. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message