nagler@olsen.UUCP (Robert Nagler) (07/07/90)
In article <22730@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes: >...if not impossible, for Richard Stallman to keep his own more radical >views out of whatever LPF does. How many times have you heard of >political groups doing things outside of their charter ... While I don't necessarily agree with all the views of RMS (BTW, who does?), he comes across as being honest and altruistic. For example, he doesn't accept money from the FSF. The LPF is up against some big companies. If we choose to bicker about the integrity of RMS, we will certainly lose the war. How many political groups (coalitions) have failed by missing the forest for the trees? RMS isn't great, but he's all we've got (unless I hear any volunteers in the peanut gallery 8-)
gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) (07/09/90)
In article <173@munz.UUCP> nagler@olsen.UUCP (Robert Nagler) writes: >In article <22730@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes: >>...if not impossible, for Richard Stallman to keep his own more radical >>views out of whatever LPF does. > >... If >we choose to bicker about the integrity of RMS, we will certainly lose >the war. In email, someone accused me of "attacking" RMS, and now I'm accused of bickering about his integrity. On the chance that others misunderstood my intentions, I want to try to clarify them. The message quoted above was not intended as an attack on RMS, it was just meant as a caution. By all means, support the LPF if you believe in it's stated goals, but if you don't also want to support the software socialism of RMS, it would be a good idea to keep track of what is being done with your money. I don't think anyone can be blindly trusted to ignore their own beliefs and be completely objective. And RMS (if you believe his rhetoric) thinks that people who disagree with his views on intellectual property rights are "evil". This shows already that he has a problem with objectivity. I guess this too can be construed as an attack on RMS, but that is not my intention, I'm trying to be objective. Within his own belief system, RMS surely has as much integrity as anyone. But part of his belief system is that intellectual property rights are evil. So he might (I say "might") have difficulty distinguishing between the stated goals of the LPF and the closely related goals of the FSF. -- David Gudeman Department of Computer Science The University of Arizona gudeman@cs.arizona.edu Tucson, AZ 85721 noao!arizona!gudeman