Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:26:55 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: mckay@thehub.com.au, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RMS: A threat to society? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010918092037.046e2a90@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200109181401.f8IE14h29150@dungeon.home> References: <3BA3248D.5E47FDC9@mindspring.com> <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>
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At 08:01 AM 9/18/2001, Stephen McKay wrote: > Well, he's certainly >eccentric (not yet a crime), is wildly hairy (still not a crime), >and writes opinionated articles (soon to be a crime if encrypted). >This just makes him interesting. If that's all he did, it would only make him interesting. But his articles amount to propaganda, and he is attempting to lead a hateful jihaad with many of the characteristics of a terrorist action. At this point, he crosses the line between mere eccentricity and being a true threat. >Well, he certainly opposes intellectual property law, loudly and >frequently. But he doesn't break it, There's good reason to believe that he does and encourages others to do so. (Note his assertion that "piracy" should be called "sharing information with your neighbor.") >Hardly the way I think of him. RMS is very useful as an unwavering >marker signifying the most extreme (yet viable) point of view in >the intellectual property/software debate. Any further and you >reach lunatic territory (illegal actions, violence, whathaveyou). What he is doing is, in fact, likely to be illegal in that it uses the same anti-competitive and predatory tactics that Microsoft used to destroy Netscape. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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