Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Mar 96 17:56 PST | From | (Bruce Perens) | Subject | Re: RMS |
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RMS had FSF sponsor a member of the Debian development team for about 6 months. I found (and still find) that his decisions were consistently meant to further rather grandiose goals of FSF rather than the goals we had set for Debian. For this reason, we declined to continue the relationship. I agree that he's done good things for free software, and will probably do more. However, in your dealings with him you must remain aware that whatever he says or does is meant to further his own agenda, which probably isn't the same as yours. He is not there to help your free software project - he's there to build the GNU system according to his own plans.
Bruce Perens -- Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com> A campaigner for Clinton and against Censorship. Toy Story: $183M and counting. At $184M it will beat the #1 movie of 1995.
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