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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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