Re: [Plug] Stallman on NPR

["Nick R" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

Thanks for telling us. It's pretty interesting. I would've loved to call in. 
Too bad it's a rebroadcast.

I always thought RMS missed some important points:
1. He's a hacker of considerable skill. Not all of us have enough excess 
talent and luck to give away all our work and still eat.
2. His analogies and arguments are more twisted than pavorati at a tiny tim 
concert. I just heard him compare writing proprietary software in making 
money out of creating software to dumping waste into the environment in 
making money out of creating paper.
3. He fails to acknowledge the fact that there are some serious Free 
Software shortcomings, such as the almost complete lack of games. He makes 
excuses and cites as his examples some highly inferior pieces of software.

I also don't think he's a particular elequent or pursuasive man. He doesn't 
make a good advocate at all. The whole (GNU/Linux)/Linux thing pisses me off 
too. The FSF only develops a very small portion of a full Linux dist and a 
lot of stuff that their name's attached to was contributed by others. It's 
just shameless credit grabbing. RMS came accross even more petty on the 
radio than he does in writing and in his actions. He's a great hacker and 
he's made a good contribution to the Open Source movement and all, but he 
should've been happy w/ the fame he attained and left it at that. Other 
people can share some credit too. There's plenty to go around.

BTW, I was impressed. The guy interviewing Stallman correctly used the word 
hacker!


       -Laktar, a.k.a. Nick Rosen, laktar.dyndns.org


If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord:
19. I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was evil, 
but
one look at the hero's rugged countenance and she'd betray her own father.
       -- Peter's Evil Overlord List, 
http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html


> From: Kevin Hill <khill@quarterleaf.com>
> Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> To: Philadelphia Linux Users Group <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
> Subject: [Plug] Stallman on NPR
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 13:28:30 -0400
>
> If you're near a radio right now, WHYY is rebroadcasting the 1/99
> edition of "The Connection" interview with RMS.  Amusing GNU propaganda.
>
> WHYY 91 FM from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM.
>
> - khill
> << khill.vcf >>

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