[SLUG] SLUGgers response to RMS on Slashdot?

["Jeff Waugh" <jdub@nospam.aphid.net>]

Hi all,

I'm sure most of you have either heard about or read the RMS interview on
Slashdot already, so I won't bore with a summary (RTFA!)...

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/01/1052216&mode=nocomment


I haven't had the chance to see him speak at all, so I've always wanted to
hear his point of view beyond the www.gnu.org writings, so I was quite
impressed with this.

The Open Source perspective has been really convenient for me, as the
arguments are easy to present, and quite well proven (if you're not
completely against the whole concept to begin with). It would be much harder
to convince tech and non-tech management of the relevance of the FSF's
political and philosophical views.


Is it possible that Open Source is the frontline for acceptance of Free
Software, or have RMS' ideals been taken over and twisted around?


I was really inspired by RMS' responses, and I'd just like to know what
other SLUGgers feel about him and the FS/OS arguments...

- Jeff


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