On Fri 08 Sep 2000, Paul Seelig wrote: > > > about. They IMHO righfully complained about RMS' "forgiving" talk > which is more like religious speech from a church or something. > If the catholic pope would utter such words it could be silently > ignored, though it would be appropriate speech in his ideological > context.
Well, he *does* consider himself a saint; from his page http://www.stallman.org/saint.html : Stallman is a saint in the Church of Emacs---Saint IGNUcius. :-) > But RMS speaking like *this* is rather unappropriate and IMHO quite > insulting. I wonder if the author of ncftp who was hurting the GPL by He _is_ sometimes a bit tactless, but gets his point across. Unfortunately, because he's such a prominent figure, people react strongly to him or are otherwise more critical of anything he does or says. > RMS should IMHO publically apologize with the KDE people for this > condescending part of his otherwise correct article. He should be So now _you_ are telling someone to ask for forgiveness? Paul Slootman (not a follower of RMS myself) -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isdn4linux.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]