On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Kaushik Ghose wrote: > The only thing I'll add here is from different instances (in all kinds > of politics - from say the level of a univ. department to the level of > the world) I sometimes see that its the "leaders" (influential people) > who seem to be more emotional, more rigid in their idealogy and more > unreasonable, than the "followers" or the every man.
Free/libre and open source software has many leaders, and many more followers. RMS is just one of the first leaders, and has hit own followers -- in some ways these followers are the next level of leaders. I've been called a 'Stallmanist' over the years, given my political beliefs in free software are very similar to his own. That being said, there are other advocates of free software that I would bring to convey messages to different people. Long-term strategy sometimes requires the 'leaders' to not be the most visible people, and to allow their 'disciples' to do the work. --- 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
