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Re: [News] RMS: Love Him or Hate Him

On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:09:25 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

>> I found this interesting video of an RMS talk recently:
>> 
>> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1647626314188526128&q=Linux
> 
> It  hasn't  left  a most positive impression on  me,  but  I
> respect  the  GNU ideaology, which affects millions, if  not
> billions  of  people  and encircles many  (ten/hundreds  of)
> thousands of developers.

Indeed, that video clearly shows how RMS values his political ideology over
common sense.  He continually talks about how how people should do
ridiculous things, and how adhering to licenses (other than the GPL) are
basically evil.  In fact, he says that Linus is the same as Microsoft in
that regard.

What he doesn't understand is that the real world operates on compromise.
You simply cannot win if you refuse to accept certain concessions to get
what you want, so long as those conceptions do not compromise your basic
ideology.

The Open Source movement understands that, and they get derided by RMS for
doing so.

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