Re: rms: 'i'm clueless, dammit!'

2003-11-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:04:23 -0500 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quoth James McDonald: | But why is RMS so dogged about the distinction? he has that far-away look of the true believer, the staunch idealogue who is untroubled by minor details such as reality. Ever the diplomt; I would

Re: rms: i'm clueless, dammit!

2003-11-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jack Berger wrote: Good analogy on the sears tools bit, but we do use a lot of the gnu tools on our solaris systems. That's cause Solaris is almost unusable with the tools that are native to the OS. Im still baffled to this day why anyone voluntarily uses Sun hardware or

Re: rms: 'i'm clueless, dammit!'

2003-11-14 Thread dep
quoth Collins Richey: | On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:04:23 -0500 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | quoth James McDonald: | | But why is RMS so dogged about the distinction? | | he has that far-away look of the true believer, the staunch | idealogue who is untroubled by minor details such as reality. |

Re: rms: 'i'm clueless, dammit!'

2003-11-14 Thread Shawn L Johnston
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:17, Michael Hipp wrote: And he better wake up, IMHO, and realize that GNU and the GPL are very much on the table in this SCO debacle. He may start to get the idea when SCO's liars, er lawyers, show up with the subpoena. Cheers, Shawn

rms: i'm clueless, dammit!

2003-11-13 Thread dep
http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/13/cz_dl_1113sco.html?partner=yahooreferrer= Stallman says the Boston-based Free Software Foundation, which he founded in 1985, has nothing to do with SCO's lawsuit. SCO is suing IBM for violating a contract. We don't even know what the contract said. In terms of

Re: rms: i'm clueless, dammit!

2003-11-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Consuming 1.3K bytes, dep blathered: http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/13/cz_dl_1113sco.html?partner=yahooreferrer= My favorite part: Oddly enough, on Nov. 11, SCO Executive Vice President Christopher Sontag complained to Forbes about IBM's decision to send subpoenas to investors and analysts who

Re: rms: i'm clueless, dammit!

2003-11-13 Thread Collins Richey
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:10:33 -0500 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stallman's GNU/Linux operating system ... I am concerned about long-term entrenched confusions such as referring to a version of our GNU OS as 'Linux' RMS get stuffed! -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart

Re: rms: i'm clueless, dammit!

2003-11-13 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I guess he doesn't recognize that Linus had much to do with it. If it weren't for Linus nobody would be using any of the GNU tools because there wouldn't be anything to use them on G! I guess everything I've made with my Sears tools I need to label Sears/whatever i- i.e Sears/workbench,

Re: rms: 'i'm clueless, dammit!'

2003-11-13 Thread dep
quoth James McDonald: | But why is RMS so dogged about the distinction? he has that far-away look of the true believer, the staunch idealogue who is untroubled by minor details such as reality. -- dep Writing takes no time. It's finding something to say that takes forever.

Re: rms: i'm clueless, dammit!

2003-11-13 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 13 November 2003 10:26 pm, Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:10:33 -0500 dep [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stallman's GNU/Linux operating system ... I am concerned about long-term entrenched confusions such as referring to a version of our GNU OS as 'Linux' RMS get

Re: rms: 'i'm clueless, dammit!'

2003-11-13 Thread James McDonald
I guess everything I've made with my Sears tools I need to label Sears/whatever i- i.e Sears/workbench, Sears/shelves. I like the above ... lol. Stallman's GNU/Linux operating system ... I am concerned about long-term entrenched confusions such as referring to a version of our GNU OS

Re: rms: i'm clueless, dammit!

2003-11-13 Thread Jack Berger
Good analogy on the sears tools bit, but we do use a lot of the gnu tools on our solaris systems. And yes, rms does exhibit that far away look as dep describes. -jhb- From: Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] I guess he doesn't recognize that Linus had much to do with it. If it weren't for

Re: rms: 'i'm clueless, dammit!'

2003-11-13 Thread Michael Hipp
James McDonald wrote: I think Richard Stallman is carrying a rather large wound in his pride because the hurd kernel has never taken off. Admittedly the tools GNU provides are critical to the functioning and construction of the Linux Kernel (please correct me if I'm wrong). But why is RMS so