From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 2 21: 0:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pop01.globecomm.net (pop01.globecomm.net [206.253.129.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B08C71501E for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:00:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zen@buddhist.com) Received: from WhizKid (r47.bfm.org [208.18.213.143]) by pop01.globecomm.net (8.9.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id XAA04561; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 23:59:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990702230012.009bf100@mail.bfm.org> X-Sender: stanislav@mail.bfm.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 23:00:12 -0500 To: "David Schwartz" , From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: RE: Shut up and show them the code In-Reply-To: <000001bec4c7$6a0597c0$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <3.0.6.32.19990702115124.0099b480@mail.bfm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 13:13 02-07-1999 -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > Sounds to me like he's simply advocating intellectual dishonesty. > > The thrust of his article is that RMS's rhetoric sounds communistic to >people, so even if you agree with him, you shouldn't talk about it. You >should instead pretend that you don't agree. That way you'll bring more >people into the Open Source movement. I had to re-read the article, but I do not see that in there. I get the impression he agrees with RMS on some points but really disagrees on others. He also wrote it as a reaction to RMS's articles in which RMS clearly states there are essential differences between his ideas and goals and those of Open Software. I don't know, but I do not see the intellectual dishonesty in Eric Raymond's article. > > This same sort of dishonesty is what disgusted me in the Libertarian >movement. Well, as chairman of Democratic Party in my county, I prefer not to get into this. :-) Adam --- Gracula v3.0 just released. Don't miss it. Visit Count Gracula's Gallery: http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/gallery/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message