On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I'm not ashamed of imitating Unix, or of imitating Motif. I'm ashamed
> of the developers of Unix and Motif for making them non-free.
And I'm ashamed of yoy trying to impose your own concept of freedom to
other people. I'm sorry that you, that didn't wrote a single line of code
for LessTif, own it's copyright and act as if you were the proprietor (I
think this is the word) of software written by other people, thanks to
your smart GNU Proprietary Licence. I'm ashamed that a man like you, that
should be an example for all of us, have a so authoritarian attitude (who
else in the Free Software Foundation take the decisions besides you?).
Twelve years ago I've read the GNU Manifesto for the first time and became
hooked by the marvelous idea of hackers cooperating each other around the
world to create free and good software ("free software for freedom",
remember?). Today I take your words with a pinch of salt, thanks to your
attitudes (I can't see your intentions, only the attitudes).
I don't want to continue this discussion . I'm angry with you, and you
know why. Angry people use rude and unadequate words. Perhaps in the
future I can cooperate with you, but currently I think in you and remenber
an old Xerox laser printer....
In the meantime, please use you respectable position for more productive
things, such as manifest against companies like Celera Genomics trying to
take patents on human genes, instead of proposing silly names for
programming API.
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