ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu (Christopher K Davis) (10/16/89)
On 15 Oct 89 17:28:45 GMT, rms@AI.MIT.EDU said: [In response to the following that I posted:] ckd> Uh.... excuse me, but I thought we created gnu.misc.discuss/ ckd> gnu-misc-discuss to keep this sort of message [from *either* side] out ckd> of the rest of the gnu.* groups and mailing lists. rms> Since they are the FSF's mailing lists, the FSF can use them any way rms> it likes. "Intriguing." - LCDR Data -- Christopher Davis, BU SMG '90 <ckd@bu-pub.bu.edu> <smghy6c@buacca.bitnet> "Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand."
rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff) (10/16/89)
In article <8910151728.AA01420@sugar-bombs.ai.mit.edu> rms@AI.MIT.EDU writes: > > Uh.... excuse me, but I thought we created gnu.misc.discuss/gnu-misc-discuss > to keep this sort of message [from *either* side] out of the rest of the > gnu.* groups and mailing lists. > >Since they are the FSF's mailing lists, the FSF can use them any way it likes. Evidently, Stallman is opposed to proprietary software, but is fully in favor of proprietary mailing lists. Interesting. Robert
ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) (10/17/89)
> rms@AI.MIT.EDU writes: >> Since they are the FSF's mailing lists, the FSF can use them any way it likes rubinoff@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Rubinoff) writes: >Evidently, Stallman is opposed to proprietary software, but is fully in favor >of proprietary mailing lists. Interesting. *sigh*. Well, you can always take RMS's approach to opposition and build your own mailing list. It's not even a great investment of effort, unlike all the stuff the FSF has been rewriting. There are valid arguments against RMS posting his politics to non-.discuss groups, like the fact that it starts pointless discussions (like this one), and undermines the FSF's own rules about the place of politics, but please put a little more thought into criticisms. And as I've said before, RMS has done enough good for the world that I'm willing to forgive him a great many niggling points before I start bugging him and interrupt the flow of great hacks. -- -Colin