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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:59:09 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Helping victims of terror
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At 01:54 PM 9/13/2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

>Good. I'll just make my point, and we can both agree to stop, right?

Mike, somehow, I knew that you couldn't resist any possible
opportunity to launch a nasty, vindictive attack in my direction.

>The most blatant example of mindless ideological hatred I've run into
>recently are attacks on GNU, coupled with personal venomous attacks on
>RMS. 

Dead wrong, Mike. My warnings about RMS and the GPL are warnings
ABOUT his mindless ideological hatred and that of his followers.

>To use the same - truly ugly - analogy, if RMS is a mindless
>terrorist attacking innocent civilians, then Brett is a right-wing
>fanatic advocating nuking the suspects in retaliation.

Your analogy is not at all valid. I am not jingoistic, as RMS is; nor
would I advocate "nuking" him. I have merely pointed out his destructive
agenda and its potential effects, just as I would speak out about any 
form of hateful fanatacisim.

(It might also be worthwhile to point out the similarity between RMS' 
methods and those of many terrorists; by distributing the effort, he 
hopes to make it difficult to stop.) 

Alas, you appear to be one of RMS' fanatical sympathizers. Your messages
to and about me are hateful, and your attacks on me are as unjustified as 
RMS's wanton attacks on all professional programmers.

--Brett Glass


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