[mdlug] An Idea inspired by....
bob dion
bobdion at starline-ent.com
Tue Jan 9 14:56:19 EST 2007
Wolfger wrote:
> On 1/9/07, Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Wolfger a ecrit:
>>> 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.
>> Principled people like Stallman are the ones who change things.
>> Those who simply accept "the way things work" never change anything.
>
> Neither do those who refuse to make compromises. That is Stallman's
> achilles heel. Refusal to compromise just leads to stalling all
> progress, and irritating a lot of those who would otherwise be your
> supporters.
>
>
If RMS never compromises how did we get the LGPL? That was a compromise
on Stallman's part.
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