Re: Bertrand Meyer challenges some open-source assumptions.
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.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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