From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jun 27 13:42:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2BFF37B400 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0530.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.20] helo=mindspring.com) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17Ng5Z-00025V-00; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:42:02 -0700 Message-ID: <3D1B7871.950CC90E@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:41:21 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Michael DuPont , des@ofug.org, s337240@student.uq.edu.au, tedm@toybox.placo.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, djohnson@acuson.com, stuyman@confusion.net Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again References: <20020627104644.22223.qmail@web13305.mail.yahoo.com> <3D1B6DBA.B00F3406@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > The question you must answer > for the FSF's approval will be whether or not it advances or it > detracts from the goals of the FSF. Free software, the GPL, gcc, > etc., are all just instrumentalities, to be used in achieving the > goals of the GNU Manifesto. If those goals could be achieved > more effciently or effectively with another approach then these > things would not have been created. I want to emphasize this as much as possible. If you take the time to internalize this idea, it should give you some profound insight into the limitations of the vision under which RMS operates. If you can model this, you can model his behaviour, and in doing that, you should be able to predict his reactions to potential arguments, without biasing against your final case when you go to present it to him. If your proof lies outside his model, he will reject it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message