Open source -- non computer topics

From: James B. DiGriz <jbdigriz_at_dragonsweb.org>
Date: Sun May 5 11:59:56 2002

Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, James B. DiGriz wrote:
>
>
>>kept between the lines. Kinda hard to do that when people single you out
>>for public comments about your personal hygiene.
>
>
> Oh come on, if I sat there and picked my nose and ate my boogers in front
> of the assembled VCF crowd, you'd be sure to hear comments about it.
>
> Hell, I'D bring that up if it was not me doing it.
>

Sellam, given UCITA, DMCA, SSSCA/DBTPA, Sen Hollings new "privacy" bill,
   , and Sen. Burns spam bill., and on, and on, with more every day, as
well as the continuing affront to freedom and progress of the
proprietary software model, I could care less if Richard Stallman
collects his toe jam in a jar, lets it ferment, and spreads it on a
sandwich for lunch.

>
>>A lot of people *don't*, or maybe don't want to understand all this and
>>see any intransigence that can be portrayed as irrelevant or anti-social
>>in some way as a sign of compulsive, fascistic, control-freak tendencies
>>and ego problems. There are people in the open-source movement even who
>
>
> All I remember is that when I met Stallman at Linux World in San Jose a
> couple years ago, he was a complete dick, whereas Eric Raymond was way
> cool, and Linus Torvalds, even though he seemed a bit agitated because he
> probably had a very busy schedule and had his wife and two kids at his
> side to tend to, still took the time to pose with me for a picture.
>

Maybe so. And maybe he should be commended for his restraint.

jbdigriz
Received on Sun May 05 2002 - 11:59:56 BST