Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 18, 2003 05:03 AM
This is bull.
RMS keeps the linguistic difference, because there *IS* a difference. And a very *BIG* one concerning legislation
Remember ESR and O'Reilly saying Free Software should't win if it is not superior to proprietary software? This is like saying "We should abolish slavery *only* if negroes work harder and produce us more when the're are freed"
"Let's get rid of Apartheid only if our company gets an economical boost".
*THAT* is a *HUGE* difference if you're talking about Software Freedom like RMS does.
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Re:Quibbling over language
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 18, 2003 05:03 AMRMS keeps the linguistic difference, because there *IS* a difference. And a very *BIG* one concerning legislation
Remember ESR and O'Reilly saying Free Software should't win if it is not superior to proprietary software?
This is like saying "We should abolish slavery *only* if negroes work harder and produce us more when the're are freed"
"Let's get rid of Apartheid only if our company gets an economical boost".
*THAT* is a *HUGE* difference if you're talking about Software Freedom like RMS does.
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