He's pretty unreasonable. NASA got into this mess because everyone was way too reasonable. Oh, so the cost of the Shuttle has gone up by a factor of 10 has it? No problem, we'll just increase the budget. Uhhhhh. People ought to be upset about that kind of thing. Heads will roll, programs cancelled; the works.My problem with Easterbrook isn't that his criticisms aren't valid. They are valid. But he's so inaccurate and so virulent and so reactionary that I fervently wish he wasn't trying to help us.
Is Richard Stallman a reasonable man? No way. But Linux almost certainly would never have been heard of if it wasn't for Mr. Stallman; it would have gone the way of Minix without the GPL.
What is it that is said about unreasonable men?
-R
