Jay, you didn't say why you think that RMS is not for freedom for programmers.  Am I 
correct in assuming that you think programmers want to keep their source code secret?

It this is the case, I think you are wrong.  In my experience it is the management of 
corporations that want to keep the source code secret, while the programmers want to 
give it away.

If you read the book "Free as in freedom" you will see that RMS has taken such a hard 
line on the GPL is that he wants programmers to have freedom.  To RMS this means that 
no software should be secret.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay Maynard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 6:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Anyone Nagios?


On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:40:53PM -0800, Ranga Nathan wrote:
> Free as in 'Freedom' or 'Free beer'. The former is more important for me!

Careful about raising this argument...it marks you as a Stallmanite, and
there are lots of us who think he's an unmitigated kook. In particular,
Stallamn believes in freedom for users, but not programmers.

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