From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Dec 19 23: 2:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DDC837B405 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 23:02:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA09298; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:02:13 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20011219235923.01c50760@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 00:02:02 -0700 To: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: GPL nonsense: time to stop Cc: Nils Holland , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011218182449.00d71c00@localhost> <20011218222113.A25396@tisys.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20011218182449.00d71c00@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message