On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Kaushik Ghose wrote: > My oar in this issue is : why can't you mention stuff in front of Mr. > Stallman and why shouldn't you argue with him ?
If you want to learn something useful from Richard, you don't want to allow him to get sidetracked. He is a very emotional person (as many of us are), and has many interesting and informative things to say. You are left with a choice: eithor you hear the emotions, or the information, but not likely both. Don't miss out on the important things you can learn from him, as it would be a huge loss. There are people who you can debate with and learn from the debate. It is my personal belief that RMS is not one of them. I spent a few hours in Montreal just this last summer having a meeting with RMS where he spent the time trying to convince me to say GNU/Linux and only say the phrase "Free Software" (never "Open Source"). I tried to talk about other things which was the point of the meeting, but he never let this happen and always brought it back to these two language issues. (Note: I say "Linux" and also say "free/libre and open source software" when I speak to government representatives and bureaucrats.) I have government contacts as part of the GOSLING Community <http://www.goslingcommunity.org> that still talk about his presentation in Montreal -- in a "we had better never invite him to something where our superiors are there, or we will never move FLOSS forward in Government". --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses, VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen and not a third party. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/ -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
