Re: [ProgSoc] GPL

[James Wan <jwan@nospam.student.law.uts.edu.au>]

> RMS isn't a marxist dude, he is a libertarian. he is neither left nor
> right. and if you had ever talked to the guy at any reasonable length
> you would realise.

On his own website, stallman.org, I agree that he is a civil libertarian,
but his views are of the left, such as the legalisation of marijuana, the
abolishment of all property laws. Sounds like Marxism to me.

> i also suspect that RMS has had a much better run at effecting social
> change than MSFT has..

Yeh probably, I never said MSFT wanted to effect social change, but I
didn't think it was a competition for differing interests. Good luck to
Stallman and GNU, but as history teaches, capitalism still comes out on
top.

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