On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, at 1:31pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Btw, I was thinking about inviting rms up to speak for a quarterly meeting > sometime. However, based on some disute with some other "Linux" user > group, he evidently refuses to speak to Linux user groups, but has no > issue with speaking to GNU/Linux user groups.
[ WARNING: Contents highly flammable. Keep fire away. ] . . . [ Okay, don't say I didn't warn you. ] My personal and highly inflammatory opinion on this is that RMS can go fsck himself. (I suspect he suffers from serious filesystem corruption in any event.) Yes, RMS has done a lot for the community, and yes the GNU project is very valuable, and yes he is brilliant man. None of that means any of us should bow down to his egomania and delusions. I'm all for giving GNU all the credit they deserve, and more, but changing the name of the group because RMS thinks we should is just, well, *wrong*. The name of the group is GNHLUG. We never said we don't use other things too, and it is generally understood that anything having to do with Free Software and/or Unix-derivatives is what we are here for. Heck, I think it's been demonstrated that just about anything that has ever been near a computer is of interest to the group. If RMS is not willing to accept that, that is his problem. The fact that every presentation RMS has given for the past two years has been nothing but a rant on why we should say "GNU Linux" instead of "Linux" and "Free Software" instead of "Open Source" makes me think we don't want to hear him speak, either. We've already had that flamewar. Anything that could be said on the matter, has. Several times. That being said, I speak only for myself, and I really don't give two shits what RMS does or where he goes. I am quite happy to simply skip any meeting he is speaking at. The only thing I am strictly against is changing the name of the group to placate anyone. > ... any objections to being called the GNu Hampshire Linux User Group :) > > I actually float this both some what tongue-in-cheek ... And, in other circumstances, I would be willing to accept it in similar fashion. But this is RMS. He will hold us to that name, and make a very big deal about anyone not using that name. In short, he will not be willing to accept it on anything but completely serious and draconian terms. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ Gnhlug-org mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-org
