Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:43:29 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no> Cc: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX Message-ID: <19980721124329.B26634@zappo> In-Reply-To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=3Cxzp4swbxp3o=2Efsf=40hrotti=2Eifi=2Euio=2Eno=3E=3B_from?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav__on_Tue=2C_Jul_21=2C_1998_a?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?t_04:20:27PM_%2B0200?= References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980720164704.21900B-100000@james.hwcn.org> <xzp4swbxp3o.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:20:27PM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> writes: > > [If you haven't heard rms singing the free-software song....for > > all his other merits, he is an absolutely terrible singer. > > Remind me again - *which* merits? Arrogance? Disdain for all opinions > other than his own? Total inability to embrace technology newer than > the Vietnam war? Look: all I said was that he has "merits". I did not say he was a good person, I did not say you had to admire him for anything, heck, I didn't even say he wouldn't be better if he was more like me. [The above paragraph is not meant to imply _any_ characteristics (good or bad) to rms other than that he has "merits".] [For those who really don't believe he has any merits at all... everyone else can just hit 'd' now] When the ncurses developers got in a really nasty fight, it was him who succesfully intervened. You can thank him that the developers have now agreed to put ncurses under (old) X11-style license instead of starting all over from scratch (which was dangerously close to happening). I understand he has had some involvement with the development of emacs... As a lobbyist, he has probably had more success than you have. The fact is that some of the software you are using (like, oh say the C compiler) has been funded partially from money and/or code he had a big part in wrangling out of other companies. > DES (who used to kinda admire him, until I started actually reading > what he writes about varying subjects) -- Tim Vanderhoek (who just knew *somebody* was going to say something) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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