RMS, Free software and the Ubuntu CDs

[Daniel Carrera]

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 14:15 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > when other people are successful where he isn't.  He's been snarky and
> > snide toward Linus Torvalds (and Linux as a whole) because people call
> > this Linux instead of GNU+Linux or GNU/Linux.
> 
> He has been snarky when Linus in his "I'm only an egineer" pose traded
> freedom for convenience for the umpteenth time and caused a lot of
> problems with it.

I should add that Linus is known to be a bit of a jerk some times too,
and ESR, and others. People just put up with it. Of the three, I think
RMS is by far the most polite. He's difficult to talk to in other ways,
but is *is* very respectful. My experience with him has been positive.

People with strong personalities often come across badly (e.g. as
jerks). It's in the nature of the beast. But given their work, I think
they do deserve a bit of slack from us.

Cheers,
Daniel.
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