From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 20 21:49:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.itribe.net (gatekeeper.itribe.net [209.49.144.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 941B411B4C for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:49:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jamie@itribe.net) Message-Id: <199902210552.AAA18634@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Received: forwarded by SMTP 1.5.2. Received: from localhost (jamie@localhost) by marsellus.itribe.net (8.8.5/8.8.6) with SMTP id AAA20340; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:49:04 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 00:49:04 -0500 (EST) From: Jamie Bowden To: Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More important Windows Refund Day coverage... In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990219111231.03fbef00@mail.lariat.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Brett Glass wrote: > At 10:47 AM 2/19/99 -0500, Jamie Bowden wrote: > > >So basically, RMS is the stereotypical geek, with odious personal habits, > >and absolutely no people skills. Why am I suddenly glad he distances > >himself from anything non gnu. > > Unfortunately, he appears to be a relatively good virus writer and > propagandist. > > And, alas, he's not distancing himself from anything "non-GNU;" he's > attacking it. He even attacked Tim O'Reilly, AT TIM'S OWN CONFERENCE, > for not giving books away for free. So, Tim O'Reilly is supposed to just make books out of thin air? Does RMS have a connection to reality? Paper, printing presses, binders, ink, and labour all cost money. Of course, there's far more overhead involved here that I really don't feel like getting into. What crack is he on? Maybe he didn't notice that communism as a social experiment failed before it ever got off the ground. The leninist states that grew out of it also failed, though it took far longer. Jamie Bowden -- If we've got to fight over grep, sign me up. But boggle can go. -Ted Faber (on Hasbro's request for removal of /usr/games/boggle) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message