Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:17:53 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Stephen McKay <syssgm@detir.qld.gov.au> Subject: Re: Richard Stallman came to town Message-ID: <4.2.0.37.19990513101355.0441ba80@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199905131257.WAA13394@nymph.detir.qld.gov.au> References: <4.2.0.37.19990512112347.00c48300@localhost> <4.2.0.37.19990512112347.00c48300@localhost>
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At 10:57 PM 5/13/99 +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: >I can only report my first-hand observations. As a number of people have >written, some of his personal habits are disconcerting, almost bizarre. >But that did not stop me listening to what he said. What he said was >very close to the software version of "Love thy neighbour", It does, but for a slightly different meaning of the word "love." ;-) Remember, what Richard wants is to see your source code. If he can't, he gets whiny and petulant and accuses you of being an "evil software hoarder." I seem to recall that hoarding food so that one was less susceptible to shortages was a crime in the old Soviet Union. >Another reason I'm not that concerned is that I can't see GNU destroying >proprietary software. It's already destroyed the market for C compilers. Heck, I'd be VERY willing to pay for a supported, commercial C compiler that was better than GCC and ran on FreeBSD. There will never be any such thing; GCC has poisoned the well. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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