Re: Bertrand Meyer challenges some open-source assumptions.
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It is rumored that on 30-May-2000 Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 11:52:48AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>> On Tuesday 30 May 2000, at 2 h 40, the keyboard of Joseph Carter
>> <knghtbrd@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Eric Raymond comes under fire for being a known gun owner and activist.
>>
>> As I already said here, I agree with Meyer on this issue, and you should be
>> aware that it is a very common argument in France against free software
>> ("Free software proponents are also gun lunatics because they want freedom,
>> every freedom, freedom to steal software and to kill people. See Raymond for
> an example.")
>
> Hear, hear.
>
> I thought there were some reasonable points in the article. Mostly
> about lack of perspective among the free software community. Crazy
> comparisons, etc.
Quick reality check:
Isn't the person who wrote the article the same Bertrand Meyer involved
in the initial Eiffel design, most Eiffel books and commercial Eiffel
compilers?
Isn't this a person whose profit is heavily affected by GPLed
sofwtare digging in his market share?
[snip]
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