Pete Bessman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:06 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Pete complains that maybe he has listened too much to Stallman. I am >> afraid if he did, he did not understand too much. Stallman is not a >> person who promises superior quality of free software: that would be >> the panacea of the "Open Software" camp. Stallman says that he >> refuses to use non-free software for ethical reasons. > > I know what he stands for, I just don't agree with it anymore. I think > it's illogical, and I think my subconcious always rejected it, and as a > response to this psychological discomfort, I think I developed a knee- > jerk "sucks" response to proprietary software. > > It's what psychologists call projection. When confronted with a > shortcoming in yourself, you project that same shortcoming onto others > so you don't feel like it's totally yours to deal with. You think OSS > has UI issues? You should see windows! You think dependency hell > sucks? Well go check out DLL hell! Etc. > > Basically, after years of forcing myself to accept a dogma that, upon > closer inspection, I think is a bunch of baloney, I have a lot of poison > in my brain that I need to remove so that I can think clearly, calmly, > and rationally. There are some ex-communists in the libertarian circles > in which I tread, and they have the same kind of problem WRT Marx and > communist ideology. And current communists are engaging in projection > and the like on an awe-inspiring scale. > > BTW, this isn't meant to equate OSS with communism. I just want to > drive home the point that I did not misinterpret one iota of the > Stallman verse --- I'm just tossing it in the trash bin along with > my Torah.
Well, what you theatrically toss has not been Stallman's invention at all. I recommend you search for another scapegoat. He never promised you a Rosegarden. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
