[NTLUG:Discuss] RMS's Speach

[Lance Simmons]

I think he's wrong to insist on calling it GNU/Linux. When I first
became interested in linux, it was primarily because I was frustrated
with Microsoft, and I'd read about this thing called linux. As I got
further into it, and saw how the software is actually developed (I'm
just an end user), I became interested in the philosophy behind it, and
now find myself more or less in agreement with rms on most things--but
I don't try to make a living writing software.

If linux had initially been presented to me as requiring a whole
political philosophy, I (think I) probably would have kept looking.
Calling it linux instead of GNU/Linux is like having "youth groups" at
church instead of "indoctrination meetings". People will go to the one
who wouldn't go to the other, but you often get the same end result:
someone who has the same kinds of beliefs as the people who run the
meetings.

I liked the talk, but I have to say I've never had to wait, at length
and repeatedly, for a speaker to pick at his teeth. That seemed a bit
too idiot savant-ish.

Lance Simmons

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 02:36:20PM -0600, WILLIAM PEARSON wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm curious what others thought of RMS's speach last night. I thoroughly
> enjoyed it and can't wait for him to return to Dallas sometime.
> 
> William Pearson
> 
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