[Gllug] amongst the maddness

[David Damerell]

On Saturday, 15 Sep 2001, sean at uncertainty.org.uk wrote:
>as far as RMS is concerned I see him as a bit of a mad genius - I think
>he has started something incredible but I feel he no longer helps
>further the aims of open source that I care most about - he is far to
>fundamentalist for my taste and certainly seems to scare of a lot of
>techies who are curios about open source.

RMS has never cared to further the aims of 'open source'.

[And a good thing, too; the Free Software Foundation have given us
gcc, emacs, bash, dozens of other tools... What's the big achievement
of ESR and the 'open source' movement? Netscape. Yeah, that was a big
success.]

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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