[mdlug] An Idea inspired by....

[Robert Adkins]

Wolfger wrote:
> On 1/9/07, *Robert Adkins* <radkins at impelind.com 
> <mailto:radkins at impelind.com>> wrote:
>
>
>         This won't happen when the face of GPL software looks like a
>     raving
>     lunatic (unshaven, wild hair) screaming about how terrible EULAs
>     are and
>     proclaiming the destruction of commercial software with a rabid
>     gleam in
>     his eye. (Which quite often is the face of GPL F/OSS movement.)
>
>
> I agree 100%. I once read the biography of Stallman, and I had a huge 
> amount of respect for him in the beginning, but by the end of it (and 
> in reading most of the things he's said publicly in the last few 
> years) I could only think of him as a raving lunatic. He went from 
> principled to being an absolute zealot, and I think he currently does 
> the movement more harm than good whenever he speaks.
>
    I still respect Stallman quite a bit. He's a very intelligent man 
and quite the capable speaker. His extreme beliefs are just difficult to 
gel with the reality of the world. Not all software would work with the 
model he presents. It would be awesome if it could, but the world just 
doesn't work that way.

    -Rob