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Stallman Clarifies Position RE:Gnome & .Net
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."
those words would be explicitly confrontational, and I did not have any wish to do that.
Uhm, RMS...since when do you not wish to be confrontational? Your whole approach is confrontational.
Disinfect the GNU General Public Virus!
is the road of destruction. Icaza is either a fool or a sellout for getting in bed with Microsoft.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
I've said from day one that The Register cannot be trusted. They are fanatics and 90% of the time they get the story wrong or sensationalize it to the point that it is completely wrong. I still don't understand why slashdot links to anything on The Register. They have proven time and time again that the stories posted on their site don't reflect fact. I think slashdot links to them becuase most of the time the stroke the ego of the open source/linux zealots.
Yeah, I don't even read the Register any more... The only time I end up there is to follow links to articles which usually end up being refuted by someone mentioned in them. Heh.
Trolling?? How do you idiots get moderator points? Let's try this again (at some point you'll run out):
Well, duh! Of course RMS isn't going to explain why "free software" is confusing to many people, has been abused by Large Evil Northwest Software Corporations, and has a negative meaning to some people. Sure, "Open Source" isn't perfect. Some people think that "Open" means you can look in through the windows even we mean that the door is open. And yeah, we would have liked to be able to assert a certification mark on it, but neither does RMS have a trademark on free software. At least we have "OSI Certified" approval for people's Open Source Software.
I highly encourage you to think for yourself, and not believe what RMS says about OSI. The basic difference is that, though we, too, have read Chomsky, we don't believe him. We don't think that you have to say "Freedom" in order to sell freedom to people, and RMS does. "Freedom" is not a magic incantation. People can be free without ever saying or knowing the word "Free" or "Freedom".
We have never rejected freedom, as he claims; just "Freedom" as a talisman.
-russ
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