On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:59:42AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > On Friday 08 August 2003 10:59 am, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:32:07AM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > > > Funny. I thought the FSF was, at least origionally, more or less > > > entirely about self-interest, altruism, and politics. > > > > The organisation might have been founded for those reasons, although > > I think it was primarily politics. I don't think you'll find much (if > > any) GNU code that was written because of them. Most of it was > > written because "I need a foo. I don't *have* a foo, but I *do* know > > how to make one". > > Eh?! The FSF is *all* about altruism and politics. How is that different to what I just said? (Other than overemphasising 'altruism') > The FSF and the GNU project is all about This is unrelated, but using words which are closer to reality: > ideals, Arguments. > politics, Reasons for arguments. > altruim, [sic] Self-delusion. (It's invariably a form of 'By doing this I can better fit the sort of person I would like to think I am'. People who disagree with this interpretation are probably committing it. Get out of that if you can!) > self-interest, Well yeah, self-interest. [Back to the subject at hand...] None of which puts code on the table (except maybe self-interest, if it's a good interest). Do not confuse the FSF (which is a political organisation) with the GNU project (which is a group of coders). Much like you shouldn't confuse SPI (which is a nod in the direction of capitalist governments) with Debian. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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