On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Justin Ryan [PHT] wrote:
> The point I was trying to make is that RMS's philosoph yis absed on ideals
> that are *never* going to make it into the mainstream, they are never
> going to work, and they never have worked.
Things change. People change. Over my short lifetime I've seen
changes in attitudes in beliefs by people and myself. Anything is
possible. You're view is also probably pretty biases by American culture.
The mainstream here is not the mainstream in Portugal or Greece or
anywhere else.
> ESR is practical enough that
> his philosophy could actually be adopted because it MAKES SENSE.
> If you beleive that RMS's utopian free software bullshit makes sense.. I
> just don't know man..
Please show me these incomprehensible ideas that you are having
difficulty parsing.
> RMS is a nut, plain and simple,that's why he never complains.. I don't
> think marx ever complained either, but he never did anyone any good :)
Pistachio is a nut. Richard Stallman is some MIT computer hacker.
> that's great.. and you would never get paid as a programmer, either, if
> you took RMS's philosophies with his compiler..
If this were true IBM would be declaring chapter 11 any day now.
Unless it could gather 20 billion a year from other means.
Adam
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