Ultimately, this discussion is pointless.
1. Stallman has been known to be difficult for about as long as he's
been active. He's easy to work with - he's the smartest one in the
room, and just do things his way. No? Expect problems.
2. The FSF is increasingly *irrelevant*. Open Source has
Thanks, Eric:
Looking at the links provided by TK Chia and in Jim's blog,
Stallman has (and caused) a real problem, so I agree that
he should not be in that new powerful position he now got.
What clout does the FreeDOS community have? If our outfit is affiliated
or disaffiliates from FSF,
I don't know why we're still arguing about this. It's been established
fact for *ages* that cooperation with RMS is impossible:
http://www.jwz.org/hacks/why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossible.mp3
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:06 AM TK Chia wrote:
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> > Honestly, he's been known as "very eccentric" for many years. I don't
> > think anybody is surprised. He has opinions and voices them (whether
> > unpopular or not). You know what they say about opinions, right?
> > Everyone has one.
>
>
Hi all!
Looking at the links provided by TK Chia and in Jim's blog,
Stallman has (and caused) a real problem, so I agree that
he should not be in that new powerful position he now got.
And I do not think that this is cancel culture censoring
unpopular thoughts. He can share his thoughts as
Thanks, TK:
Well, I happen to lurk around on the GCC mailing list. The impression I
am getting is that the issue might be much larger than just "someone
having unpopular opinions"
We do have old people with old-fashioned views. I accept that this isn't
nice.
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On 3/30/2021 6:51 AM, TK Chia wrote:
Hello Rugxulo,
Honestly, he's been known as "very eccentric" for many years. I don't
think anybody is surprised. He has opinions and voices them (whether
unpopular or not). You know what they say about opinions, right?
Everyone has one.
Well, I happen to
Hello Rugxulo,
Honestly, he's been known as "very eccentric" for many years. I don't
think anybody is surprised. He has opinions and voices them (whether
unpopular or not). You know what they say about opinions, right?
Everyone has one.
Well, I happen to lurk around on the GCC mailing list.
> Until Microsoft isn't a monopoly, Stallman
> almost has to be the way he is and can hardly change at all.
Microsoft isn't really the problem any longer. You can pretty much get
Windows 10 for free. Fewer and fewer people have PCs in their homes,
having been replaced by phones and tablets
Thanks, Liam:
I like debate!
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 03:01, Michael Christopher Robinson
wrote:
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> Stallman is clearly a hard person to get along with. Part of the reason is
> that Microsoft has been a monopoly for so long that the GPL was the only way
> anyone could have a personal computer run something not MS-DOS and
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