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Date:      Tue, 6 Mar 2001 04:59:36 +1000 (GMT+1000)
From:      Trent Waddington <s337240@student.uq.edu.au>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Stallman stalls again
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.4.30.0103060456170.18369-100000@student.uq.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010305114235.046da630@localhost>

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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Brett Glass wrote:
> What we have is a war that is escalating on BOTH sides. Many people who
> never worried about protecting their intellectual property are now
> under siege by the followers of Stallman and feel that they have to
> take extreme measures. Again, we need to broker a new and lasting peace.
> But Stallman, Barlow, and others are selfishly trying to instigate, and
> then take advantage of, a war. Hence the Richard III analogy.

A war of words.  A war of legal strategy.  A war of corporate politics.
But a war of blood and killing ala Richard III, let's try to keep some
perspective here.  The "balance" you are talking about can also be refered
to as ignorance and self denial.

Trent


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