Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:27:25 +0100 | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Stall-man is Stall-ing |
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At 11:15 AM 1/19/2003 -0500, Rob Wilkens wrote: >On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 03:30, joe wagner wrote: > > For those of you who dont know, Richard M. Stallman is a lonely, > homely, pot-smoking atheist who has spent the last 20 years of his life > fighting the free enterprise system with his own tax-exempt organization, > the Free Software Foundation, Inc., and a project he calls "GNU" > (pronounced g-NEW). As a BA graduate in Physics, he continuously > demonstrates that he does not grasp basic economic concepts, like the > cost of research and development, by trying to convince everyone to give > their software away for free. > >Stallman sounds like a great guy from the way you describe him (by the >way, no one is lonely on the internet, and there are advantages to >living alone if indeed that is how he lives -- I miss that kind of >lifestyle). By the way, If you're using the Linux Kernel, you can thank >folks like Stallman (and people like Linus Torvalds who chose to use >his license for their work) for allowing you free access to their own >research and development, only asking in exchange that if you use their >research and development, that in return you share your own research and >development that you do with it back with them and hence with the rest >of the world. > >That is, if it was fair for you to use their work for free, then it's >fair the other way around. If you don't want to share your work, then >you shouldn't use their tools. That's why microsoft exists. Use >microsoft compilers and tools if you want to build proprietary >technologoies on properietary operating systems.
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This thing has been beat to death. Can we _please_ revert to development now.... eh?
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