Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 14:30:39 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@hub.freebsd.org> To: giffunip@asme.org Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <20000514213039.F226137B752@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <391F1640.4C878B19@asme.org> (giffunip@asme.org)
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> > > It depends on your definition of evil. If it's in religious terms, him > saying "there is no God" is probably sufficient to consider him evil. i dont believe that atheists are evil. i am not too concerned with what people believe, its how they act that matters to me (speech is an act, especially if one convinces others to act). > > On social terms, an evil person is someone that receives satisfaction in > harming others, so I could say he is evil. > Stallman "receives satisfaction in harming others"? I dont know what factual information this is based on....some have written that Stallman has an agenda that he keeps secret. I have not seen any reason to believe that. (almost by definition, no?) Stallman has done a lot of good for the Open Source community. Look at the number of programs that people use in which he has had a pivotal role. If he had not done the job, someone else may have. The fact remains that he did, and therefore those that use software developed by/for the FSF owe him a debt of gratitude. At least that's how I view it especially while writing this email using emacs compiled with gcc. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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