Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Rjack <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > GNUtians and RMS have blithely blathered and babbled since 1995 that >> > the GPL and "Copyleft" would destroy Micro$oft. > > RMS' buddy Moglen's death threats to MS ("Free Software and the Death of > Proprietary Culture ... there's no room left for paying $12.95 to Mister > Gates: we win. We win.") and his others numerous "imminent" MS' death > "predictions" aside for a moment,
How about actual references? > how about the following quotes from Stallman: > > "In the GNU Project, discrimination against proprietary software is not > just a policy--it's the principle and the purpose. Proprietary > software is fundamentally unjust and wrong, so when we have the > opportunity to place it at a disadvantage, that is a good thing." "Place at disadvantage" is hardly the same as "destroy", is it? >> RMS has said that he is not going to lend any support to software >> hoarding practises, as typical for Microsoft. But he never stated >> that such companies are _dependent_ on him or free software, so >> destruction of them never was a topic. > > What? > > "destruction of them never was a topic"?! > > Dak, dak, dak, you silly dak. > > (see "wrap myself in dynamite... I definitely did have fantasies of > killing myself and destroying their building in the process" below) Uh what? A non-existing Email is supposed to be a statement about the purpose of GNU? And that RMS was pissed at Symbolics and decided to create software not susceptible to them and their ilk is supposed to be a plan of destruction? You silly Terekhov. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
