[ubuntu-za] Interview with Richard Stallman

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Come on, RMS is God, a literal Saint, if it weren't for him, we'd still be
  BSOD or worse, up to our eyeballs in debt paying off a Unix license. RMS
liberated the C compiler and gave us rules to live by, we can't thank him
enough for GPL and Free Software Movement, if he spends the rest of his
days, wacked out on Jolt Cola tearing into tweens for hero worshipping
Linuz Torvelds, whose only contribution to civilisation is the Linux
kernel,then he will have done his work on planet earth. :)
On Monday, November 26, 2012, Leon Gert Marincowitz wrote:

> One must differentiate a person's achievements from their behaviour. Great
> achievements never justify atrocious bahaviour, thats self righteousness.
> The greatness of Mandela seems to be his very humility, which makes him
> even greater.
>
>  I came across RMS's tirades before ever knowing what he had done which
> means his reputation precedes him. One report I read spoke of him tearing
> into a 12 yrs old kid as he was trying to thank the "great" RMS for what
> he'd done, said Linux instead of Gnu/Linux. This interview redeemed him
> quite a bit for me, which made me think of our own Shuttleworth who
> generally refuses to hop on the bandwagon of insulting everyone and believe
> there's enough space for everyone in the software world. This is very
> Mandela-like and Ubuntu like according to the philosophy thats been
> recently written by people such as UJ philosopher Thad Metz.
>
> I noted the community pledge when signing up, something along the lines of
> not insulting or being disparaging towards another. This is good, not to
> stoke fires even further, but I've heard Shuttleworth say open source.
>
> Does anyone have a definite answer on where Ubuntu sits in this debate or
> does it even matter and instead refer to Floss as a term of not taking
> sides?
>
> Best
>
> Leon
>
> 083 982 63 15
> lmarincowitz at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'lmarincowitz at gmail.com');>
>


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