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To: Golden Eagle
"According to Stallman's website their "ultimate goal" is "to make proprietary software obsolete". Sounds pretty straightforward to me."

Repetitious posting of the same quote without properly setting the quote in context, i.e., letting Stallman also explain WHY he wants to make proprietary software obsolete (found in the GNU Manifesto). If you consider quote-mining straightforward, then I guess we have nothing more to discuss. I don't know everything to know about Stallman, and I do think he's a tad crackers. But I do think that he clearly states that his intention is real competion in the marketplace and real capitalism, not simply the monopolistic 'competition' the Microsoft world has delivered to personal computing. You may disagree with his method, but his intentions seem honestly capitalist enough for me, at least as far as the manifesto is concerned.

203 posted on 02/24/2006 8:34:36 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if you don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)
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To: LibertarianInExile
letting Stallman also explain WHY he wants to make proprietary software obsolete

Sorry, I don't find that any more interesting than reading why Marx thinks why we should be giving more than just software to the community.

209 posted on 02/25/2006 12:14:40 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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