movies, open source, RMS and linux...

[Tore S Bekkedal]

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 16:21 -0600, Doc Shipley wrote:

>    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.

I fully agree with you, in fact. I work on an open source project to
bring Linux software and thin clients into schools, called Skolelinux
(Skole being the Norwegian word for School). I have heard rumours of a
FSF fanatic (might have been RMS himself) arguing with our project
leader about the title, wanting us to change the title to
"Skole-GNU/Linux"!! :D


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Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe at ifi.uio.no>