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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:02:02 -0700
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
Cc:        Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop
Message-ID:  <4.3.2.7.2.20011219235923.01c50760@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <by8zbyxzec.zby@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20011218182449.00d71c00@localhost> <Pine.LNX.4.43.0112181330200.21473-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <20011218222113.A25396@tisys.org> <Pine.LNX.4.43.0112181330200.21473-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218182449.00d71c00@localhost>

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At 09:56 PM 12/19/2001, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

>And RMS should not be held to what he said more than 15 years ago.  (I'm
>not sure what the threshold should be.)

RMS has not changed his absolutist "religion" in all of that time.
His intent is precisely the same. He has merely discovered that by
hiding his intentions and toning down his rhetoric he is able to
garner support via deception. And since he believes that the end
justifies the means (he refers to this concept, euphemistically,
as "pragmatic idealism"), he feels no compunctions about these
tactics.

--Brett


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