Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-20 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
Come on Eric, laugh at yourself a little. I'm just yanking your chain because you make yourself such an easy target. E ps. Thats quite a check you are writing when you say you want *win* more than RMS _ever_ has. pps. I'll give you $20 if you'll stop saying "tribe". On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-20 Thread Mitch Blevins
Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > Come on Eric, laugh at yourself a little. I'm just yanking your chain > because you make yourself such an easy target. I agree. That last tirade against Richard was just a little bit much. I think Eric deserves praise for all his work, and also believe that it helpful

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Ean R . Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >Come on Eric, laugh at yourself a little. I'm just yanking your chain >because you make yourself such an easy target. Yeah. Well, when you pull my chain, don't complain because I bite. > ps. Thats quite a check you are writing when you say you want *wi

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-20 Thread Pat St. Jean
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Eric S. Raymond wrote: >I would have preferred that outcome. Turns out I'm *very* good at >this bullshit; good enough that high-powered professional PR types >call me a "natural" and I've seen at least one serious semiotic study >of my propaganda technique (in Feed magazine

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-20 Thread NotZed
Well, I hate to get down to this level, but it seems I've been beaten to it. Look who's got tickets on himself. You really are such a joke Eric, maybe if you could see past your own self-gratifying bull you'd be able to see that. You may be surprised to know that the sort of spirit that drives

Re: RFC soon on essay "Does Free Software Production in a Bazaarobey the Law of Diminishing Returns?"

1999-08-20 Thread Miguel de Icaza
I agree with Richard that GNOME should be classified of part of the Free Software movement. We started this project to provide a free (in the sense of freedom) user interface for the GNU project. We are not working on GNOME because it is "economically" a good idea, nor for any of the allegedly

Re: RFC soon on essay "Does Free Software Production in a Bazaarobey the Law of Diminishing Returns?"

1999-08-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Miguel de Icaza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A problem I have with OpenSource these days is the following: even if > these days Qt passes as OpenSource, it is really annoying for > developers. All of these "opensource" licenses that have started > appearing are nothing but a big nuisance. I agree with

Re: RFC soon on essay "Does Free Software Production in a Bazaar obey the Law of Diminishing Returns?"

1999-08-20 Thread Matthew C. Weigel
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > I agree with Richard that GNOME should be classified of part of the Free > Software movement. I'm glad you said something -- I almost jumped in, but I'm not involved with Gnome. > We are not working on GNOME because it is "economically" a good idea,

Re: unsubscribe

1999-08-20 Thread Signal 11
s Gersh wrote: > > unsubscribe *growling* Ten second head start. -- Signal 11, List BOFH and sysadmin of malign.net Runs with scissors. | people.mn.mediaone.net/bojay/

Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-20 Thread Jacques Chester
RMS wrote: >How do Open Source projects differ from the above? >In two very important ways. Firstly, OSPs have no >time-bound. That is, there is no deadline whereby >the next version of GNOME has to be delivered, "or > >I agree entirely with your argument, but the words raise a b