Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
Do I (a) go see him talk, because he's been such an influential person
in the Free Software (and even Open Source) movement, or (b) stay in my
office and work because I think RMS has become too much of an
impractical and ineffectual extremist?
You know, we need the extremists, too.
The extremists make the less extreme stuff look more acceptable. If we
didn't have RMS, then the "open source" people would be the extremists.
In addition, *how* do you be more effectual about free software than he
is? His message is all the more relevant with all the lockdown features
floating around Vista.
While I personally won't use the GPL (I'm a BSD license fan), the fact
that it exists makes life better for the BSD folks.
-a
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