From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 23 02:04:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA12224 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 02:04:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA12183 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 02:04:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@obie.softweyr.com) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA03491; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 03:04:00 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes) From: Wes Peters Message-Id: <199807230904.DAA03491@obie.softweyr.com> Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction In-Reply-To: <19980722152643.H15764@notabene.zer0.org> from Gregory Sutter at "Jul 22, 98 03:26:43 pm" To: gsutter@pobox.com (Gregory Sutter) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 03:04:00 -0600 (MDT) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gregory Sutter wrote: > > I seem to have chosen the wrong word. :) I did say, however, that some > of his ideas are "on the edge of acceptability", which is a definition > of extreme. He may be right, though -- for most instances of > intellectual property, there is really no need for ownership. > Unfortunately, this view is incompatible with capitalism. That > doesn't make it something to be reviled. Most people who immediately > ridicule RMS's ideas are never fully cognizant of their implications. Right -- anyone who disagrees with you is obviously too stupid to really understand what he's saying, or too lazy to bother to understand it. Did it ever occur to you that the rest of us may be fully cognizant of the implications of his ideas and STILL reject them as crackpot? Or, did it occur to you that WE now place you in the same category? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message