Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:06:50 -0400 From: "Randall Hamilton" <nitedog@silly.pikachu.org> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>, "Stephen McKay" <mckay@thehub.com.au> Cc: "Stephen McKay" <mckay@thehub.com.au>, "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: RMS: A threat to society? Message-ID: <000901c1411c$b5bf2fe0$0300a8c0@nitedog> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010913023437.045fae70@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010913002733.05261930@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010912203732.0492cc80@localhost> <20010912225151.58FCD37B40B@hub.freebsd.org> <20010912215547.98067.qmail@web20806.mail.yahoo.com> <01091219512600.11358@proxy.the-i-pa.com> <20010912225428.A9675@citusc17.usc.edu> <4.3.2.7.2.20010913021952.045974f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010913185102.0497c9e0@localhost> <15266.22869.722204.601040@guru.mired.org> <3BA3248D.5E47FDC9@mindspring.com> <200109181401.f8IE14h29150@dungeon.home> <ag66ag5vm7.6ag@localhost.localdomain> <200109191408.f8JE8Ki21552@dungeon.home>
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> You could well be right about that. Except for the "holy war" bit. You > should be careful about words like that in today's climate, since they > mean very specific things. RMS and his followers feel very strongly > about certain things, mostly to do with software. They disagree with > the status quo and work actively to change it. They are not involved > in a holy war. Not even a bit. > > Stephen. i suppose that depends on your definition of 'holy war' Last time i checked, RMS treated open source well into the 'fanatic' department (when he is not ranting about facist Unix admins..EVIL wheel!). i would easily classify his actions as a 'holy war' or crusade. you dont really have to have a god for it to be a holy war, not in todays socity anyway. -Randall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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