[CoLoCo] RMS interview.

[David Overcash]

We should watch it at our next release party and have an install-fest to
coincide with it!   : )

-David

On Dec 22, 2007 11:04 AM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu> wrote:

> I own that movie.  I could bring it to the next two-hour event...
>
> On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 00:01 -0700, W S wrote:
> > As an interesting tangent here, I highly recommend the documentary
> > "Revolution OS"  (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308808/).  It's a bit
> > dated now, but it has several excellent interviews.
> >
> > I liken the open source philosophic as more pragmatic and short-term.
> > I think RMS wins in the long-term.  I have much respect for RMS.
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On Dec 20, 2007 1:59 PM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Dec 20, 2007 10:53 AM, David L. Willson <DLWillson at thegeek.nu>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Eeeww.  Jim, that's just gross.  OK, now I have to ask Collins:  Who
> do
> > > > you cheer for?  Who or what gets your undiluted praise and why?
> > > >
> > >
> > > "undiluted praise' - that's a tough one. No one is without blame. I
> > > have great admiration for Mark Shuttleworth, Patrick Volkerding,
> > > Daniel Robbins, the sidux developers, the KDE developers, the many
> > > thousands of Debian developers, the developers of the xxBSD distros,
> > > the developers of perl and python and ruby and bash, and even RMS
> > > himself from time to time, but I certainly cannot give undiluted
> > > praise to any of them.
> > >
> > > I am a believer in open and free software, but unlike RMS and most of
> > > you, I have no problem with proprietary software. Microsoft is not an
> > > abomination because its software is not released under the GPL but
> > > rather for its many other failings. As an example, Microsoft is evil,
> > > but nVidia and Adobe are not. Each is in the position of developing
> > > products that people are drawn to based on their merits, and neither
> > > is in the business of coercing people to use their products. My nVidia
> > > cards work just fine, and I have no problem utilizing closed-source
> > > drivers as long as they work. I have no problem using Flash and Adobe
> > > Reader when there is a release that works well under Linux.
> > >
> > > If someone chooses to develop and market software that is closely held
> > > but that works well on my Linux system, I don't need to listen to RMS
> > > or his minions ranting about this evil practice ( see indigestion in
> > > the earlier post). That being said, I prefer to use open source
> > > software when it is well suited to its purpose, and I always use 100%
> > > free distributions of Linux.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Collins Richey
> > >      If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
> > >      of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
> > >
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