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
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