From owner-freebsd-advocacy Tue Feb 20 14:31:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A28AF37B4EC for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:31:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA5870; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:36:05 -0800 Message-ID: <3A92EF80.14F68EF2@acuson.com> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:28:16 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trent Waddington Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stallman stalls again References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Trent Waddington wrote: > > ... I recently asked RMS if he figured > it would be worth my while to go and ask for the assignment again as I > figured that after reaping nothing from the code for 18 months they may be > more forthcoming. This is the response I got. RMS essentially tells me > to bury the code in the backyard because it might be "dangerous". Go take a look at his rant on UDI. His two main objections to it are "People could run free GPL-covered Linux drivers with Windows systems", and "People could run non-free Windows drivers on GNU/Linux systems." I was confused, and asked him about it. "Why shouldn't Windows users have Free Software drivers?" His response was very similar to the one he sent me. That was my Great Turning Point, the moment in time when I realized that Richard Stallman is a complete and utter fraud. He is not interested in Free Software, except when it aids his only real goal, The GNU System. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message