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From: aaron@vienna.njit.edu (Aaron Watters)
Subject: Re: HATE
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In article <JAFFER.94Nov4003723@jacal.zurich.ai.mit.edu> jaffer@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Aubrey Jaffer) writes:
>
>...But in some recent postings, we have seen Mr. Stallman likened to the
>cruelest tyrants of history and fiction.  In baseless and
>condescending attacks, we have seen Mr. Stallman's motivations,
>judgement, and works derided both as being ineffectual and unimportant
>*and* as leaving a legacy of software practices from which the
>multi-billion dollar softare industry cannot free itself.  How ironic
>it is that many of his detractors use products of the FSF....

Ironic indeed!  Ignore the fools.

There were some other posts, however, that characterized some of
RMS's recent actions as silly, the GPL as over-restrictive, etc.
Let's not lump all criticism of the FSF and RMS into one pile of
"hate mongers" -- this classical demogoguery.

One nice thing about these controversies is that, unlike
certain others this century, it's hard to imagine anyone getting
shot.		-a.

PS:  I know a number of participants in the industry who don't
 particularly care to be freed.  Nevertheless, keep up the good
 work!
