RMS (again)

[Jeff]

Who is Richard M. Stallman and what is his importance in life? and why do we
want to hear him talk if he is anal about dumb stuff?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Odhner" <vodhner@cox.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: RMS (again)


| Matt Alexander wrote:
| > Well, I'll only be attending if the official name of the group is
| > GNU/X11/Mozilla/Apache/Matt_is_cool/I_like_donuts/Linux.
| > ~Matt
|
| Thanks, Matt.
|
| I was trying to think of a way to say that ...
|
| I, for one, have met the guy once.  That was
| educational.  I don't need to meet him again.
|
| To his issue, I'd be open to calling our group
| something related to open source software --
| we also support GNU, BSD, X11, Mozilla, etc. --
| but Mr. Stallman wouldn't like that either since
| not all of "etc" is "Free Software".
|
| The only way around may be to set up an informal
| valleywide "GNU Users Group" dedicated to hosting
| speeches by Richard M. Stallman.
|
| Vic
|
| Kirt Karl wrote:
| > [Stallman] doesn't want the event to be in any way
| > associated with a Linux users group (only if the
| > official name of the group is GNU/Linux).
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