On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 09:06:00AM -0800, T. Joseph CARTER wrote: > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:06:00 -0800 > From: "T. Joseph CARTER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] GPL v3 BETA released > > 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. did he try to change kde to gplde ?
> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
