[Golden Eagle]

It's the linux pimpers who create all the threads, I just come along to inform those who never heard of it of all the leftists behind this "GNU" they're talking about. The "father of free software" runs it, a green party whacko who literally calls himself a "saint". Ever heard of these fruits yourself?

[NCjim]

So that's RMS? Geez... who'd a thunk it?

[dayglored]

> It's the linux pimpers who create all the threads, I just come along to inform those who never heard of it of all the leftists behind this "GNU" they're talking about. The "father of free software" runs it, a green party whacko who literally calls himself a "saint". Ever heard of these fruits yourself?

Few Linux folks who know about RMS consider him a saint. It's just as unfortunate that the free (speech, beer, whatever) software movement has a whacko self-absorbed figurehead, as that the proprietary software movement has a whacko self-absorbed figurehead (that would be the legendary chair-throwing monkeyboy Ballmer).

I am grateful for the early work RMS did, in particular the gcc compiler, because that made possible a lot of technical work that I did in the 90's. For that matter, anyone who uses any of the modern BSD UNIXes, MacOS-X, and others, is indebted to RMS and the gcc developers.

However, RMS has become a religious nut-case, and like all religious nut-cases, he's lost touch with what it's really about. He cares now only for his own glorification. Witness how he's screwing GPLv3 into a corner.

Look, I work as Director of SysAdmin for a company that writes and sells proprietary software; I use and maintain servers running Windows, NetBSD, Solaris, Linux, and MacOS; and I love and hate them all because nothing is perfect. I support users running all of the above plus Vista. If I were a religious nut-case, I'd be out of a job.

I happen to be writing this on my home Linux box, but my WinXP box alongside is crunching on a task and my Mac Mini is downloading some updates. I use what works best for the task. Free software often (but not always) does it best.

So I don't think you're playing fair, to paint all GNU, much less all GNU/Linux or other free software boosters as leftists. Many of us are simply folks who don't think that Microsoft et al -- despite their overwhelming market success -- are doing the best job out there, and we'd like to try to do better ourselves. You're welcome to judge the results as inferior -- it's a free country. I prefer to have a mix, since that way I can do anything I need to do, on at least one of these boxes.

[postaldave]

the guy really is a fruit i would prefer that linux go to the BSD license model. secretly i think even Linus wants to kick his sissy ass.

[rzeznikj at stout]

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[shadowman99]

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[bigdcaldavis]

He looks like that shaggy-looking hippie who used to be a guest on the Alex Jones show. No, not Rense.......somebody else.