Re: Essay RFC delayed.

1999-08-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Ean R . Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frankly Richard, I agree. You should be more of a sport. Think of the benefits you would recieve. Look at all your other colleagues that grew rich while you were splitting these philosophical hairs. Its not too late! If you "play ball" the establishment

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

1999-08-20 Thread Richard Stallman
A complete free operating system *of sufficiently high quality* (not the highest possible quality, but better than Windows, anyway). Otherwise, any old hack would have done the job. I agree it helps a lot to have high-quality software. But even a somewhat unreliable operating system

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

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 *win*

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: 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