Yeah. Granted I may not agree with all of RMS's statements but I can say he has remained dead consistent since day one and I think bit by bit we may tend to agree with him.
Without RMS where would Free Software be? We may call him extreme and inflammatory - but let's remember he's devoted his life to this and we're all benefiting from it right? Granted he doesn't do a good business spindoctor job, but there are plenty of ppl who do that in this world, we need a guy like RMS and we know it.
The problem is that sometimes the truth makes ppl uncomfortable - and the truth is we all want the cake and we want to eat it too. Guess what... Freedom is not free of charge.
They called GNU "Gee Is Not Unix"! Had to write to the Straits Times of Singapore to get it right.
Also, my 'unofficial' take on parts of the Singapore Linux Conference and my mail to the newspaper is here on my web-site. Today (9th March) there's another article in the press about RMS's talk at the National University of Singapore. This time they got the GNU right (but still spelled Gnu) - duh? (Straits Times online only releases todays edition at 12 noon local time).
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Yeah. Granted I may not agree with all of RMS's statements but I can say he has remained dead consistent since day one and I think bit by bit we may tend to agree with him.
... Freedom is not free of charge.
Without RMS where would Free Software be? We may call him extreme and inflammatory - but let's remember he's devoted his life to this and we're all benefiting from it right? Granted he doesn't do a good business spindoctor job, but there are plenty of ppl who do that in this world, we need a guy like RMS and we know it.
The problem is that sometimes the truth makes ppl uncomfortable - and the truth is we all want the cake and we want to eat it too. Guess what
They called GNU "Gee Is Not Unix"! Had to write to the Straits Times of Singapore to get it right.
Also, my 'unofficial' take on parts of the Singapore Linux Conference and my mail to the newspaper is here on my web-site. Today (9th March) there's another article in the press about RMS's talk at the National University of Singapore. This time they got the GNU right (but still spelled Gnu) - duh? (Straits Times online only releases todays edition at 12 noon local time).