When Hitler invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia, the Prime Minister of Great Britain (Neville Chamberlain) tried to be "rational" and to avoid a new World War. So he sat down to negotiate with Hitler. He succeded to keep the peace. Hitler would rule Austria and Checoslovaquia.
Churchill was very critic about that. He always said that the Nazis were dangerous and that Hitler and the Nazis should be stop as soon as possible.
When Hitler invaded Poland it was clear he was right.
Only fanatics can lead a revolution. If RMS was rational, the Free Software movement would be lost.
I know that also Lenin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Tse-tung were fanatics. But is our responsibility to decide what is the wise solution. To follow a fanatic or to surrender to the current situation.
I'm an "almost" graduate in CS. I always had the feel that P NP. Too many people had worked many years in finding polinomial time solutions for problems that are very simple to describe. If an eficient solution exists we already should have found it.
I'll read de paper and give it to some people I know that work on complexity theory.
This brings me to my point. Have you noticed that few, if any, Napster advocates are arguing that it should be legal to purchase a copy of Windows 2000 and share it with a community of Windows fans on the Internet via a peer-to-peer networking system? Why not? Is it because there are no fans or potential fans of Windows 2000? Or is it because they know Microsoft's lawyers would have them thrown in the hoosegow before they could finish their next morning's Wheaties? Or is it because people are already addressing the issue of free software the right way? Instead of subverting an existing system of commercial software, they are creating new open-source software and publishing it.
Or is it because Windows 2000 has several hundreds of megabytes of files ? Remembers that nobody downloads Linux from the net (though it is legal and possible). Everyone buys a CD from a distributor. Or copy one CD from a friend.
In my country the home users or students have never bought a legal copy of Microsoft products. They got it from a fiend o from a "pirate" (or should I say "free"?) copy. And I think this is good for Microsoft, because a lot of people became users of Windows, Office, or Visual Basic. And so the industries and software companies (that uses legal copies) can take advantage of this expertise.
If the Microsoft lawyers were so good that no one use an ilegal copy, Linux would be the dominant S.O. for home users and students. And then It would get the Enterprise users
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Yes, RMS is a fanatic. Also Mahatma Gandhi and Winston Churchill.
When Hitler invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia, the Prime Minister of Great Britain (Neville Chamberlain) tried to be "rational" and to avoid a new World War. So he sat down to negotiate with Hitler. He succeded to keep the peace. Hitler would rule Austria and Checoslovaquia.
Churchill was very critic about that. He always said that the Nazis were dangerous and that Hitler and the Nazis should be stop as soon as possible.
When Hitler invaded Poland it was clear he was right.
Only fanatics can lead a revolution. If RMS was rational, the Free Software movement would be lost.
I know that also Lenin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Tse-tung were fanatics. But is our responsibility to decide what is the wise solution. To follow a fanatic or to surrender to the current situation.
I follow RMS
You will donate ???
How do we suppose to find you to get the cash ? You are Anonymous Coward
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Wow ! 15000 England Units is the same that 150000 USA Units. Sure it's beacuse of the inflation in USA.
Or perhaps "." in England means ",0" in USA ?
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In many countries the "." and "," are interchanged to express numbers and currency. Also the time formats and hour format are different.
I'm an "almost" graduate in CS. I always had the feel that P NP. Too many people had worked many years in finding polinomial time solutions for problems that are very simple to describe. If an eficient solution exists we already should have found it. I'll read de paper and give it to some people I know that work on complexity theory.
Or is it because Windows 2000 has several hundreds of megabytes of files ? Remembers that nobody downloads Linux from the net (though it is legal and possible). Everyone buys a CD from a distributor. Or copy one CD from a friend.
In my country the home users or students have never bought a legal copy of Microsoft products. They got it from a fiend o from a "pirate" (or should I say "free"?) copy. And I think this is good for Microsoft, because a lot of people became users of Windows, Office, or Visual Basic. And so the industries and software companies (that uses legal copies) can take advantage of this expertise.
If the Microsoft lawyers were so good that no one use an ilegal copy, Linux would be the dominant S.O. for home users and students. And then It would get the Enterprise users