"Revolution OS" (The Movie).

[Scott]

Guido Heumann spake thusly on 12/18/2006 11:20 AM:
> Scott schrieb:
> 
> I fully agree. He's definitely the best person to be presented to the
> public, from a "poster child" POV ;-)

RMS just doesn't get it.  But he keeps whining that "nobody likes me 
..blah blah.."

> 
> (...)
>> Bruce Perens seemed *relatively* normal, although I'm not sure what is 
>> (was) wrong with him.  He had some sort of constant tic/twitch and/or 
>> speech impediment, but nothing anyone could be critical of.
> 
> Those were my first thoughts too, but you get used to his way of
> speaking after a while. IMO the way he thoroughly, sometimes slowly
> pronounces his words makes it fascinating to listen to him.

I wasn't fascinated by his speech patterns or facial expressions, I was 
distracted by them. But as far as what he had to say, I found him very 
interesting.

 > It even has
> a positive effect on his credibility to me. And he really has some
> inspirational things to say. (did you know he once was Debian Project
> Leader and created the Debian free software guidelines and later the
> Open Source Definition?)

Yup

His baby ---->> http://www.opensource.org/

Of course Dickie doesn't like 99% of the licenses listed there (not that 
I care....).


> 
> (...)
>> Interesting stuff though. A lot of history that I was and was not aware 
>> of.  A must see for any geek.
>>
> 
> I can also recommend the videos from the 2005 UN World Summit of
> Information Society, where RMS, Bruce Perens and Mark Shuttleworth all
> spoke on the same panel:

Thanks for those. I'll check them out.

Humm.. Stallman and Shuttleworth on the same panel.  Polar opposites in 
the professionalism department. That should be interesting.


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