24 Nov
2004
24 Nov
'04
12:22 p.m.
I don't know Stallman personally (except
through some email
correspondence on behalf of a LUG), but I think your assessment is spot
on. I do know and work with a couple of people who worked directly with
him at FSF in the '80s and '90s, and they are completely insufferable,
much in the way that Christian Scientists, Moonies, or Jehovah's
Witnesses are. "If It Ain't GNU, It Can't Be True", and intrusive as
hell.
And yeah, I probably just managed to offend the *rest* of CCTalk.
Oh, well.
It's the GNU Fanatics that bother me. Personally I'm more than a little
sick of the whole lot. I'd love to see a version of Linux that uses the BSD
tools rather than the GNU tools, though getting rid of gcc would be more
than a little difficult.
Zane