Red Hat 7.2 B2 comments (rant)

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, John Abreau wrote:

> Ron Peterson <ron.peterson at yellowbank.com> writes:
> 
> > rms is not compelling anyone to do anything.  He's requesting.  There's
> > a difference.
> 
> I would argue that he's overdoing it. I actually agree with a lot of what
> rms writes about; we certainly see eye-to-eye on the problems with copyright
> and patents in the software field. But I don't agree with his stance on the
> GNU/Linux thing, and whenever I bump into him at a trade show, he always 
> asks that I change the name of our user group. I've made it clear that 
> I'm not going to change our name, but even after that he won't discuss 
> other issues. Maybe it's just me, but it seems that when I'm present, he'll
> only talk about GNU/Linux.
> 
> Or maybe it's because I wear my "Boston Linux & Unix" shirts when I attend 
> the trade shows.  :-)

It's not you.  He's been to several of my parties (fun people with 
music, atmosphere, lots of chocolate...), and never left one 
without leaving a wake of enemies behind him.  The pitbull thing is just 
too much.  I think he's a real detriment to their cause, frankly.

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