From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 13 8:26:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C1BB237B679 for ; Sat, 13 May 2000 08:26:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 25917 invoked from network); 13 May 2000 15:26:14 -0000 Received: from theory7.physics.iisc.ernet.in (qmailr@144.16.71.127) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 13 May 2000 15:26:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 22110 invoked by uid 211); 13 May 2000 15:26:11 -0000 Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 20:56:11 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Cc: gh , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , gh , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org>; from giffunip@asme.org on Sat, May 13, 2000 at 10:17:18AM -0500 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.14 alpha X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > As above, people are comparing this group to a group of "communists" and > > Stallman to Stalin. Who are we (or 'these people') to continue *using* GNU > > tools and things development along its ideology? > > > > The comparison is not unreasonable, it even is healthy..look in the > archives, I worte something about this for the Daemonnews some time ago. > OTOH, you don't need to agree with their license if you only execute the > binaries, without redistribution and without looking at the source. It's a strange sort of communist who insists on free speech all the time. Sure one may not agree with a lot of what RMS says, but there's a lot of crap spoken about him in the FreeBSD world which I'm not going to get into a flamewar about this time. If you want to know what he thinks, read his writings. Read his recent Slashdot interview. You may hate everything he says but you can't call him a communist unless you have no idea what he's about or what communism is about. > > This is almost like saying: Okay, we *really really* don't like you people, > > but as long as you are developing stuff, and are giving it away for free, we > > will gladly exploit this to further ourselves. > > > > Of course that's OK! There's no double moral in it. Absolutely. I detest the moral superiority and holier-than-thou attitude of many of the people in the FreeBSD project but I use the system anyway. I use linux too, it's not a "one or the other" thing. Use what suits you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message