I love gnu software, the quality and capeabilities are amazing, and if something is missing I can mod the code myself.
I hate microfost SOFTWARE it is low quality and I cannot make my own changes.
I do not hate microsoft, I just wish they made a better product and let me have some control over what I buy.
I do not hate bill gates, he worked to get where he is, he earned his own money, maybe through scheming, maybe through effort, maybe what someone sees as scheming to him appears as work. relativity folks.
Why is this relevant to this article? Well to denounce gates accusation of communism is fine, and to reverse the logic to show gates as a hipocrite is also fine. But stallman, the very intelligent absolutely brillian long time asshole went beyond that. As great as stallman is he is undisputedly arrogant.
The statements in here though making a valid point and reprisal are also very much a personal attack. It is like a media flame war between an arrogant asshole who has earned the right to be an arrogant asshole, and a man at the top of everything who has also earned his way there (though in my opinion it was with a crappy product). All this shows is that people at the top are no better and no worse than the flammers at the bottom. In the long run this article has accomplished little more than fortifying the positions everyone already had. In fact that is the only outcome of almost everything today. I ask has anyone here ever changed their opinion on an issue after holding it a long time based on something a popular/well known (ex stallman and gates) said tot he media? I f you have changed your long heald (5 years+) opinion based on this then please reply to this post and say so. But don't just say britney spears says war was bad so I am anti-war (yes I am going beyond patent law) and don't just say all my friends hate Bush so I decided I do too! State what opinion you changed, who said what sparked your change of opinion, and why you changed it. I do not care what the opinion is, or which side of the issue you are on.
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I love gnu software, the quality and capeabilities are amazing, and if something is missing I can mod the code myself.
I hate microfost SOFTWARE it is low quality and I cannot make my own changes.
I do not hate microsoft, I just wish they made a better product and let me have some control over what I buy.
I do not hate bill gates, he worked to get where he is, he earned his own money, maybe through scheming, maybe through effort, maybe what someone sees as scheming to him appears as work. relativity folks.
Why is this relevant to this article? Well to denounce gates accusation of communism is fine, and to reverse the logic to show gates as a hipocrite is also fine. But stallman, the very intelligent absolutely brillian long time asshole went beyond that. As great as stallman is he is undisputedly arrogant.
The statements in here though making a valid point and reprisal are also very much a personal attack. It is like a media flame war between an arrogant asshole who has earned the right to be an arrogant asshole, and a man at the top of everything who has also earned his way there (though in my opinion it was with a crappy product). All this shows is that people at the top are no better and no worse than the flammers at the bottom. In the long run this article has accomplished little more than fortifying the positions everyone already had. In fact that is the only outcome of almost everything today. I ask has anyone here ever changed their opinion on an issue after holding it a long time based on something a popular/well known (ex stallman and gates) said tot he media? I f you have changed your long heald (5 years+) opinion based on this then please reply to this post and say so. But don't just say britney spears says war was bad so I am anti-war (yes I am going beyond patent law) and don't just say all my friends hate Bush so I decided I do too! State what opinion you changed, who said what sparked your change of opinion, and why you changed it. I do not care what the opinion is, or which side of the issue you are on.