On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:47:26PM -0800, Alan wrote:
> >So you think it's a good thing for Microsoft to be allowed, under the GPL,
> >to make Linux on any Dell machine illegal, by coercing Dell into using a
> >TPM chip in their machines? Do you think this is a brilliant strategy to
> >make the world more free and less dependent on proprietary software?
>
> Huh?
> Please don't include me in your paranoid delusions.
I note you didn't answer even one of my questions. I can only assume that
you are simply unwilling or unable to admit that making it illegal to
subvert things like TPM chips hurts the free software community.
> I merely suggested that RMS has endured sniping from the backbench for
> the 25 some odd years he's been pushing for his particular brand of utopia.
> Consequently, I don't imagine that cc'ing him from the middle of an
> mailing list thread is likely to "give him fits".
You merely suggested that RMS has had to deal with idiots (apparently
including me among them) before--completely ignoring the fact that I have
attacked what RMS is doing on the merit rather than because he's doing it.
I happen to think that this particular brand of myopia is normal for
Richard, but my experience with the man is not based on a few fluffy and
utopian things he's put up on the GNU website. He and I have had more
than a couple of debates, in person, over precisely these kinds of issues.
They usually end with him raising his voice and accusing me of being an
opponent of free software (or worse) when he runs out of rebuttals.
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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