Date: 21 Jul 1998 19:44:52 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> Cc: "Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>=?iso-8859-1?Q?=2C?= Satoshi Asami" <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports INDEX Message-ID: <xzphg0brtd7.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Tim Vanderhoek's message of "Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:43:29 -0400" References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980720164704.21900B-100000@james.hwcn.org> <xzp4swbxp3o.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> <19980721124329.B26634@zappo>
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Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org> writes: > On Tue, Jul 21, 1998 at 04:20:27PM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: > > Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> writes: > > > [If you haven't heard rms singing the free-software song....for > > > all his other merits, he is an absolutely terrible singer. > > > > Remind me again - *which* merits? Arrogance? Disdain for all opinions > > other than his own? Total inability to embrace technology newer than > > the Vietnam war? > Look: all I said was that he has "merits". I did not say he was a > good person, I did not say you had to admire him for anything, > heck, I didn't even say he wouldn't be better if he was more like me. Relax, Tim, I'm not attacking you, I'm attacking RMS. Sure, he may have written som great software, but his ideology has corrupted far too many minds for me to have any admiration left for him. He is after all the author of the single most successful computer virus of all times: the GNU GPL. DES -- One two, one two, one two.
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