[clue-talk] RMS and OpenBSD

[David L. Willson]

De Raadt goes to personal insults and you're going to back him?  Stallman may be a
hard-liner, but he did keep it on the level, at least in this instance.  Yes, he gives
some room for ribbing, but there's a gulf of difference between finding a comic funny
and asking the man to "step aside".

RMS is like the North Star, and as necessary.  We have a politician already, and a darn
good one.  RMS is not a politician, at least, not a good one, and I'll vote that I don't
want him to be.  I want him to continue to be balls-to-the-wall.

Anyway, anyone that's doing the work will have my praise and not my criticism, if I can
manage it.

On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:49:18 -0600, Sean LeBlanc wrote
> So...maybe I should hand over my nerd badge, but I haven't seen anything
> about this until I decided to buy OpenBSD 4.3 CD over at SoftPro to support
> OpenBSD and because I needed CD and didn't want to scout around for
> "alternative ISOs".
> 
> I crack it open and the booklet has this ongoing comic (or is it a graphic
> novel? :) ) that seems to be lampooning RMS...sure enough, I google around a
> bit and find this:
> 
> http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2384
> 
> I also ran into an older story about how he was shooting Linus in the back
> over the GPLv3 or something...but didn't look into details at all.
> 
> I know I pondered here on clue-talk whether RMS had jumped the shark back
> when the FSF was proposing the Genius Bar denial of service thing, but now
> I'm wondering if the guy shouldn't consider stepping aside.
> 
> He's done a lot, I like Emacs a lot, I appreciate him creating GCC very
> much, etc....but seriously, who needs all the "friendly fire" over dogma?
> 
> -- 
> Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc at comcast.net  
> http://sean-leblanc.blogspot.com/
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-- David