From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 19 8:13:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.inter7.com (ns1.inter7.com [209.218.8.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE5F537B416 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 08:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 7176 invoked from network); 19 Sep 2001 15:06:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nitedog) (65.6.158.15) by evanston.inter7.com with SMTP; 19 Sep 2001 15:06:43 -0000 Message-ID: <000901c1411c$b5bf2fe0$0300a8c0@nitedog> Reply-To: "Randall Hamilton" From: "Randall Hamilton" To: "Gary W. Swearingen" , "Stephen McKay" Cc: "Stephen McKay" , "Terry Lambert" , References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010913023437.045fae70@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010913002733.05261930@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010912203732.0492cc80@localhost> <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> <20010912225428.A9675@citusc17.usc.edu> <4.3.2.7.2.20010913021952.045974f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010913185102.0497c9e0@localhost> <15266.22869.722204.601040@guru.mired.org> <3BA3248D.5E47FDC9@mindspring.com> <200109181401.f8IE14h29150@dungeon.home> <200109191408.f8JE8Ki21552@dungeon.home> Subject: Re: RMS: A threat to society? Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:06:50 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > You could well be right about that. Except for the "holy war" bit. You > should be careful about words like that in today's climate, since they > mean very specific things. RMS and his followers feel very strongly > about certain things, mostly to do with software. They disagree with > the status quo and work actively to change it. They are not involved > in a holy war. Not even a bit. > > Stephen. i suppose that depends on your definition of 'holy war' Last time i checked, RMS treated open source well into the 'fanatic' department (when he is not ranting about facist Unix admins..EVIL wheel!). i would easily classify his actions as a 'holy war' or crusade. you dont really have to have a god for it to be a holy war, not in todays socity anyway. -Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message