Re: Bertrand Meyer challenges some open-source assumptions.
On Tue, 30 May 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
> Richard B. Kreckel wrote:
> > And, to continue the point, above bullshit can be found on a site
> > advocating free software, <http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/guns/gun-ethics.html>.
> > This is a problem.
>
> That's ESR's personal website. Most people put up random things on their
> personal website. Sheesh.
After reading it again I see that it was wrong to quote the URL here.
I have, however, repeatedly come across ESR's writings and have repeatedly
worried about what one could call `namespace confusions' in some of those
writings: the notion of freedom to wear guns and the notion of free
software are occasionally dangerously entangled.
Regards
-rbk.
--
Richard Kreckel
<Richard.Kreckel@Uni-Mainz.DE>
<http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~kreckel/>
Reply to: