From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 13 9:18:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8444A1508D for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 09:18:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14664; Thu, 13 May 1999 10:18:08 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.37.19990513101355.0441ba80@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.37 (Beta) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:17:53 -0600 To: Stephen McKay , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Richard Stallman came to town Cc: Stephen McKay 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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