[Lancaster] GNU

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andy baxter wrote:
> Wayne Ward wrote:
>> ha ha cheers john !! good bloody point!!
>> i have  lot of respect for the guy and his contribution not only to  
>> linux and the gnu
>> i certainly dont mind supporting advertising the gnu :)
>>
>> any yer dude i talked the guy respect :)
>>
>>   
> 
> I agree that it's good to give credit to GNU for the work they did (even 
> though it's a losing battle that Stallman is fighting on this point, as 
> far as I can see).

Indeed, it is a losing battle - and that is what he shares with
anarchists, extra-parliamentary socialists, environmentalists and even
liberal human rights activists struggling to make a better and just
world; but that it is a losing battle does not mean that the battle
should be abandoned, does it?

Although it might be nice to be on the side that's winning, the losers'
side look like the place to be, at least to me.

That said, he is not exactly an easy person to discuss with!

-martin
(currently finishing a thesis with a philosophical and political
analysis of Free Software that includes excerpts from more than 100
emails exchanged with Mr. Stallman, in case that sort of thing interests
anyone..)