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Stallman Clarifies Position RE:Gnome & .Net

Posted by Hemos on from the making-things-clear dept.

RMS ? has sent The Register an email in which he corrects their 'inaccurate' representation of his stance on the GNOME & .NET issue. He states, "I am pretty sure something was garbled in the quotation which has me asking Miguel to 'explain himself to us', because those words would be explicitly confrontational, and I did not have any wish to do that."

7 of 299 comments (clear)

  1. oh, never. by magicslax · · Score: 5, Funny

    RMS "explicitly confrontational?" Surely you jest!
    ;-)

  2. Straight from the horse's mouth.... by Gingko · · Score: 5, Funny

    The very existence of GNOME is the direct result of our ideals of freedom, precisely what the open source movement was founded in 1998 to reject.

    So open source rejects your ideals of freedom, and has done since its foundation?

    Someone better notify the press :)

    Henry

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    1. Re:Straight from the horse's mouth.... by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

      1) It dilutes his power,

      Oh come on. The constant attempts to make Stallman look like some sort of megalomaniac bent on dominating the world is just ludicrous.

  3. Re:Missing Link & more... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    And finally, I point to the final line of the article referencing comments by de Icaza -
    ?In the interview, he praised many aspects of .NET including SmartClients and the new Microsoft security model. ®?

    Please?someone say it ain?t so!!! Is this individual actually praising the evil empire?s security model? Has he been smoking dope!!! I think I?ll just forget that I saw that and move on as if nothing ever happened?
    Well, yes, of course he praised the new Microsoft security model, it's a great piece of work, and Linux (and other) platforms would benefit immensely from an implementation of it.

    Of course, the reason he did this is because he is very bright, aware of all the technical issues and has spent a lot of time actually writing code and managing projects. I would suggest that the reason you don't like this technology is that none of these apply to you.
  4. Re:Since when... by Arandir · · Score: 2, Funny

    RMS has never been confrontational.

    You mean like that time he tore a reporter a new asshole for using the term "Linux"?

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  5. Re:Ad Hominem attacks on Richard Stallman by Old+Wolf · · Score: 3, Funny

    Richard Stallman has a wife. This means he must have had a girlfriend earlier. Therefore, he should be an inspiration to all geeks out there.

  6. Re:Ad Hominem attacks on Richard Stallman by ReadParse · · Score: 4, Funny

    I agree wholeheartedly, but GNU/Linux has never exactly rolled off the tongue. This is why I recommend a new name for the OS-soon-to-be-formerly-known-as-Linux, made up of a combination of the names of the two people primarily responsible for it's creation:

    Stalman + Linux =
    "Stalin"

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