sabayon (was fc6 slip)

[Derek Neighbors]

On Oct 18, 2006, at 8:03 AM, Nathan England wrote:

>
> No I was implying that I believe he is poor and is jealous of those  
> who have
> more money than him. Or those who have original ideas and create  
> new things,
> whether or not they use old things instead of just re-creating the  
> wheel one
> hundred times...
>
> On Wednesday 18 October 2006 06:14, Alex Dean wrote:
>> On Oct 17, 2006, at 11:33 PM, Nathan England wrote:
>>> it's purpose is to deny anyone from taking something and
>>> making more money than Richard Stallman.
>>
>> If you're implying that Richard Stallman is rich, I'm pretty sure he
>> isn't.
>> .

Just to be clear someone who was awarded $830,000 in 2001 for the  
Takeda award as well as a Mac Arthur Fellow (whose payout is at least  
$200,000+) who sits a top a multi million dollar NGO (Free Software  
Foundation) is poor?  Certainly I don't consider RMS a Bill Gates and  
he lives a very meager lifestyle (purposefully), but honestly I don't  
think he lacks any kind of cash flow.

As far as jealousy goes...  I don't see how someone who created some  
of the most widely used tools in the world (GNU tool chain, GCC and  
Emacs) has penis envy against other developers.  Furthermore, Free  
Software as a whole probably has a foothold of users only rivaled  
with Microsoft and friends.  Personally I don't think RMS is jealous  
and/or poor.

However, I do think he feels dis-respected (some times rightfully and  
often times not).  If you listen to what he complains about and what  
bothers him for a large part (for example the whole GNU\Linux vs  
Linux) thing.  It really boils down to him (and his beliefs) likely  
not feeling properly acknowledged.

You can like or dislike the guy all you want, but to infer that he  
has no original ideas, never created anything new and just rehashes  
old things over and over is largely inaccurate.

My two cents.

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Derek Neighbors