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Re: [News] Encounters with Richard Stallman and KnowledgeTree's Chalef

Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> ____/ GPS on Friday 10 July 2009 08:59 : \____

>> good and solid engineering, built from prototypes and experience.
> 
>> In this way, the users suffer from low quality software

That a fallacious view of commercial software.

For example, would you describe Windows Vista as "good and solid
engineering, built from prototypes and experience".

Being either proprietary and/or commercially supported is no guarantee
of quality. It's a sheer myth.

>> It's a good example of how every democracy fails, as well as
>> communism.  I think there is a reason why the introduction to GNU
>> was dubbed _The GNU Manifesto_.  I would rather have something more
>> like a constitutional republic.
> 
> How would you describe "letter to hobbyists"? Anti-social? Elitist?

Given GPS's obvious political leanings, he'd probably describe it as
"liberal".

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

.----
| "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which
| the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf
| denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty.
| Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of
| the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today
| among human creatures." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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