Mr. Stallman, I respect you for what you've managed to achieve as an individual.
But, frankly, this thread has really gotten way out of control. A few days back everything had kind-a settled down and we got the impression that the thread had fortunately died, but that's not been the case, you are struggling hard to lay out your viewpoints which seem a tad bit twisted from where we look at it. Nobody out here is going to listen to what you're going to say, and you are going to go on and on about how you were justified in labeling OpenBSD as not compliant with your interpretation of the word "free", which we don't give a farthing for. No offense, but, please, please go away, we really don't want you here, and on your way out, please take your minions along with you. ~Mayuresh On Jan 3, 2008 3:20 PM, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact many of the people did expect this when you favorite > organization lost the battle publically on Reyk's code that your > friends stole and tried to impose your license on it, and when they > even tried vainly to go legal by the advice of a un-educated american > lawyer but finally foun that they have just embarrassed themselves in > public. > > I don't know who or what that refers to. I do know that my favorite > organization is the Free Softwar Foundation, and I know it has not > been involved in anything that fits that description. > > I suspect this is related to the harsh message Theo sent me a few > months ago, which rebuked what "you" (was that me? the FSF?) had done. > He mentioned the name "Reyk" (which I don't recognize) and said it had > something to do with a license. But he did not go into details. > The FSF was not involved in the matter. > > I could have investigated what he was talking about and determined > what conduct he had criticized. Then, supposing I wanted to give them > some advice, I could have asked someone to find the developers' > addresses, and written to them. Then they might or might not have > listened to me. > > I could have done all that, but I saw no reason to go so far out of my > way for someone who was treating me rather badly. So I simply told > him that the FSF was not involved in the matter. > > I know that one part of your description events is wrong--the part > that says, that my "favorite organization" has "lost the battle > [publicly]". My favorite organization, the FSF, was not involved. If > any of "my friends" were involved, they did not inform me. > > Those errors make me skeptical of the rest of your claims. Did > someone lose a battle? Did anyone really "steal" anything? I don't > know, but I won't take your word for it. Did they "try to go legal"? > If so, was it "vainly"? If they got legal advice, was their lawyer > "un-educated"? Was the outcome embarrassing for someone? I don't > know. > > Whoever would like to know the answers to these questions would do > well to check on his own.
