Okay, I've stayed out of this one for a while, but I stopped by the local on
the way home tonight, and think it's time to spout off :) We may not agree with
everything that RMS has to say, but we do owe him a hell of a lot. If it wasn't
for his opinion we wouldn't be where we are today. I'll admit that I think the
Tif suggestion is a little far fetched, and don't really agree with it, at this
point, but to tell you the truth, I've also heard a lot worse suggestions. Even
though most of the files in the LessTif dist. have a copyright belonging to the
FSF, he didn't say "though shalt refer to yourself as Tif", he said "hey how
about".....Which puts himself in the same league as any of the other millions
of people able to make a suggestion. We either run with it, ignore it, or offer
opinions of our own that counter it.
Anyway, I thank RMS for his opinions, even though I don't agree with them all,
and don't think we would be enjoying what we have today without them...
I suspect that this time would have been better spent fixing the TearOff menu
problems, but a rant every now and then makes you feel pretty good also......
later......
On 27-Jun-00 at 20:04, Carlos A M dos Santos ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote: > 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.
>
>
> --
> Carlos A. M. dos Santos
>
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>
>
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