Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:08:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More important Windows Refund Day coverage... Message-ID: <19990221180845.J93492@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199902210552.AAA18634@gatekeeper.itribe.net>; from Jamie Bowden on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 12:49:04AM -0500 References: <4.1.19990219111231.03fbef00@mail.lariat.org> <199902210552.AAA18634@gatekeeper.itribe.net>
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On Sunday, 21 February 1999 at 0:49:04 -0500, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > >> At 10:47 AM 2/19/99 -0500, Jamie Bowden wrote: >> >>> So basically, RMS is the stereotypical geek, with odious personal habits, >>> and absolutely no people skills. Why am I suddenly glad he distances >>> himself from anything non gnu. >> >> Unfortunately, he appears to be a relatively good virus writer and >> propagandist. >> >> And, alas, he's not distancing himself from anything "non-GNU;" he's >> attacking it. He even attacked Tim O'Reilly, AT TIM'S OWN CONFERENCE, >> for not giving books away for free. > > So, Tim O'Reilly is supposed to just make books out of thin air? Does > RMS have a connection to reality? Paper, printing presses, binders, ink, > and labour all cost money. Of course, there's far more overhead involved > here that I really don't feel like getting into. > > What crack is he on? Maybe he didn't notice that communism as a social > experiment failed before it ever got off the ground. The leninist > states that grew out of it also failed, though it took far longer. To be fair to rms, if GNU is communist (and there's a lot going for that theory; I've proposed it myself. Funnily, rms wasn't amused), then FreeBSD is anarchist. That didn't work in society either. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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