Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 21:03:22 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Joe Warner <rootman@xmission.com>, "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is Brett Glass to easy on RMS? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010505205342.00c3d2a0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <01050519474102.00516@blackmirror.xmission.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20010505194927.00875100@mail85.pair.com> <3.0.6.32.20010505194927.00875100@mail85.pair.com>
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At 07:29 PM 5/5/2001, Joe Warner wrote: >I'm by no means defending RMS but why would he want to do >this? What's his motivation? Joe, have you ever read the book "Hackers," by Steven Levy? Levy does an excellent job of documenting the events that led to RMS' vendetta. There are a couple of significant events in RMS' life that are NOT included because they happened later... RMS' nervous breakdown, for example, which happened a few years after the book was written. But the events in the book laid the groundwork for his monomaniacal drive to destroy all commercial software companies and programmers. I read it the same year I first encountered RMS (who was, at the time, living in the apartment of an acquaintance). It explained a LOT, though it still didn't prepare me for some of the more vehement things RMS said during our first conversation. >Also, and this may be off topic but more and more lately, I've >noticed the ugly head of Linux vs BSD and vice versa popping >up on the web. I realize it's something that's gone on for a long >time but..why? Why isn't it BSD/Linux vs MS? I think that this depends on the forum. In forums such as Slashdot, where contempt for Microsoft's products is nearly universal, we see a lot of Linux vs. BSD debates. In the rest of the world, it's <UNIX-like OS> vs. MS. Folks who are not programmers do not understand either the licensing or technological differences among the UNIX-like OSes.... It's all over their heads. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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