From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Feb 20 23:39: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4938B11022 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:38:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA05744; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:08:47 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA44154; Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:08:46 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990221180845.J93492@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 18:08:45 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jamie Bowden , Brett Glass Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More important Windows Refund Day coverage... References: <4.1.19990219111231.03fbef00@mail.lariat.org> <199902210552.AAA18634@gatekeeper.itribe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199902210552.AAA18634@gatekeeper.itribe.net>; from Jamie Bowden on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 12:49:04AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sunday, 21 February 1999 at 0:49:04 -0500, Jamie Bowden wrote: > 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. To be fair to rms, if GNU is communist (and there's a lot going for that theory; I've proposed it myself. Funnily, rms wasn't amused), then FreeBSD is anarchist. That didn't work in society either. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message