[Gllug] Talk by Richard Stallman in London, 12 Feb

[Paul Brazier]

> I think RMS suffers from his point of view being so far removed from
> 'normal' that he cannot start arguments in this way - the language
> doesn't make sense !
> 
> He starts from a fundamentally different position, if he were 
> to try and
> cover that up surely he would end up making no sense at all.

Every radical movement needs its extremists; they help to shift the
"middle ground".
At the moment maybe most people see MS's monopoly and RMS as the two
extremes with perhaps non-monopoly proprietary software in the centre.

The more radical RMS is, it will make less-eccentric free software
advocates look reasonable by comparison.

Paul.


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