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All About Linux: My Indomitable Thoughts on GNU, Linux, Open Source, Java and Free Cats and Dogs
Apr 12, 2006, 01 :30 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (8499 reads)

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"Recently, when I ran a transcript of a talk given by Richard Stallman at the Australian National University, I never expected to get any adverse remarks about him and on the views expressed by him on problems faced by the free software community. But that was not to be. I was appalled to find a lot of comments ridiculing RMS for the views aired by him on various sensitive topics. In fact, the sheer number of these negative comments make me feel that these were made not by free software users but by people who have a stake in proprietary software and they were making these comments posing as GNU users to spread FUD among potential free software converts..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
I love and use free software, but I thin ...   RMS IS a bit of a loon.   
Matt
Apr 12, 2006, 03:22:36
 
So this guy is really and truly surprise ...   Oh, come on.   
Hyper L
Apr 12, 2006, 12:33:55
 
You mean you haven't been called a l ...   Re: RMS IS a bit of a loon.   
Sid Boyce
Apr 12, 2006, 15:56:54
 
> Give yourself the break, many others s ...   Re: Re: RMS IS a bit of a loon.   
hanumizzle
Apr 13, 2006, 02:40:39
 
> Just because I like open standards, an ...   Re: RMS IS a bit of a loon.   
Onan the Barbarian
Apr 13, 2006, 07:13:09
 
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