On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:06:22PM -0800, Martin Kelly wrote:
> Nice one CCing that to RMS ;).
I didn't see the Cc on the original mail (which was kept in my reply until
30 seconds before I hit the send button. Decided to leave it there. It
will give him fits. Won't change his mind, but it will give him fits.
IMO Richard Stallman is dangerous. He does easily as much harm as good to
the community that supposedly doesn't exist. We're talking about the guy
that pretty much singlehandedly made the KDE license war last an extra two
years because he insisted on GPL or nothing. At the time, I asked the
people at Troll Tech what was wrong with the GPL. Their response was
three letters: RMS. There's such a thing as going to far, and he'd gone
it. I saw the email and what Richard was doing. It was designed to piss
them off and coerce them into the GPL. The more he pushed, the more they
pushed back. Only after he stopped pushing and let tempers settle for a
couple of years was it possible to speak reasonably about the topic.
He's not going to listen to me, though. By my own choice, I'm now pretty
much an unknown in the community unless someone remembers me from my
fortune file. This kind of thing is why I left the community proper.
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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