On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 18:44, Robin wrote: > I'd say it was half turn-on and half turn-off. The man's enthusiasm and > idealism are infectious (I saw him here in Turkey and was impressed) but > his dogmatism and bile are off-putting. Stallman is the Bakunin of > software. the Same goes for Eric Raymond - he has some good ideas > (notably about Lojban and Elvish) and some kooky ones (notably his good > ol' gun-totin' pioneer spirit). > > However, PR disasters aside, perhaps it's good that we have such > colourful and disparate personalities in the Open Source / Free Software > movement, since then it can strike a chord with different people. We > have Stallman, the hairy radical who appeals to the hippy element, > Torvalds, the hygienic Scandinavian who goes down well with the > technocrats, and Raymond to get us the NRA vote. > > Sir Robin
Looks like you got my kooky pioneer-spirit vote. ;) LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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