On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:18:30PM +0000, hmoreau at digiserve.ie wrote:
> On 13 Dec, John P . Looney wrote:
> > He was very good. He made just about every in the place feel guilty for
> > paying for software, from games to shareware.
> >
> >
>> When are people going to realise that RMS is a nutter and a zealot?
>
Ahhh sure we all know that, we were in stiches laughing as his all blsessed
us at the last talk. The guys a fruitcake, but sure whatcha ya gonna do.
> I think he gives the Open Source Community a poor image in a corporate
> world.
I think, IIRC, that he does take great pains from differenciate himself from
the open source term, and instead chooses to align himself with the term
free software, which in fairness at his last talk, he did a good job of
explaining the difference between the two.
Dave
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