"Revolution OS" (The Movie).

[Nikolai]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Nikolai wrote:
> 
>> No to all the above. What counts though is what a man has to say and
>> even more what a man does, not how he looks, where he is from, what kind
>> of soup he eats and how often he has an appointment with a barber.
> 
> That's incredibly naive.  We - the people living & working with OSS - are
> not the ones Stallman has to sell on the idea.  Unfortunately, the people
> he does have to sell won't buy from "the scary guy".


If it was naive, Stallman would have been forgotten and become 
irrelevant by now. As it is though, he's neither forgotten nor 
irrelevant, despite his appearance and an extravagant character. Perhaps 
this is so *because* not *all* people judge others by their appearance 
and instead listen to what they have to say and watch what they do or 
have done.

Although it is perfectly normal to follow certain codes in order to gain 
attention of others in the business community, at the end of the day, 
those with *thinking intellects* are interested much more in man's ideas 
rather than his haircut. Reason being, those with thinking intellects 
are interested in profits more than in some stupid dress codes (hence 
they invest in enterprises run by boys with bad haircuts, questionable 
diets and other suspicious habits).

I enjoyed every single minute of that video with Stallman's speech 
(never saw/heard him speak before) and he came across as a man of 
intellect and precision. His insistence of precise definitions is a 
feature I would like to see more of with other thinkers and visionaries. 
   The lack of such definitions is the most fundamental cause of 
confusion not only in business or free software movement, but for 
example in law, philosophy, science etc. He comes across as someone who 
realised this deficiency in common human communications and his desire 
to correct that is only commendable. Of course, the crowds are laughing 
but that's what crowds do, scoffing at thinkers of Stallman's caliber is 
their favourite thing to do since there's not that much thinking going 
on among the them. Name calling always wins over thinking.

Nikolai