Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 02:54:46 -0700 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Open Source Town Meeting" supports only one faction Message-ID: <19980723025446.D19731@notabene.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <199807230904.DAA03491@obie.softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 03:04:00AM -0600 References: <19980722152643.H15764@notabene.zer0.org> <199807230904.DAA03491@obie.softweyr.com>
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On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 03:04:00AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Gregory Sutter wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, this view is incompatible with capitalism. That > > doesn't make it something to be reviled. Most people who immediately > > ridicule RMS's ideas are never fully cognizant of their implications. > > Right -- anyone who disagrees with you is obviously too stupid to > really understand what he's saying, or too lazy to bother to > understand it. > > Did it ever occur to you that the rest of us may be fully cognizant > of the implications of his ideas and STILL reject them as crackpot? > Or, did it occur to you that WE now place you in the same category? I didn't say that you specifically fit into that category. There is no way for me to know whether you, or anyone else on the list, had glanced at the FSF web pages once or twice, or was RMS's college roommate for four years. That's why I stated it as I did. You're twisting this as if it was a personal attack, which it wasn't. If you want to discuss the FSF's beliefs or the correctness of a mandatory donation to them for entrance to an open source convention, do so. Don't assume, with an all-inclusive "WE", that everyone else on the list is backing your point of view, and _please_ don't descend to name-calling. Regards, Greg -- Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:gsutter@pobox.com "You uudecode it." http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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