Mihai Popescu B. S. wrote:
Both sides started to used stupid and out of context words. Nothing was
achieved,
just insults and no productive discussion.
Stallman continually keeps repairing and admitting to a small amount of
his errors... and this entire thread has made progress. The only reason
stallman started admitting to anything, was because people were so
persistent and tough on him.
How often I have to beat these quotes below into people I don't know:
/"...a philosopher who did not hurt anybody's feelings was not doing his
job."
--Plato (source: Wikipedia)/
/"...a programmer who did not hurt anybody's feelings was not doing his
job."
--L505 (source: Z505)/
/"..one of the men who brings legal charges against Socrates, Anytus,
warns him about the trouble he may get into if he does not stop
criticizing important people."
--Wikipedia/
Everyone is so nicey nicey huggy huggy with stallman in other communties
and they never speak up about any of his philosophies because they
believe everything he says blindly. Linus once in a while speaks up
about Stallman and everyone gets mad at Linus. Do you see a pattern
here? There is nothing wrong with speaking up once in a while. I'm
growing a hatred toward people who are scared of speaking up.. they have
no guts and they try and STOP ME from speaking up. They are speaking up
themselves, about me speaking up. Hypocrisy?
The fact that Stallman himself is replying, shows that he wants to be
here. If it was so bad for him, he would have left. He is learning
something about freedom.. but he won't admit to it. I have personally
taught the man more than anyone else here, as we all know.
As for the language? Why can't people just get a sense of humor? Stop
being so sensitive about such things. This is email and laughing is
healthy. Foul language is not always nice, but at times it is extremely
hilarious.. and anyone who whines about being hurt from foul language
should really learn to cope with it.. because humans by nature should
not be perfectly nice all the time. If we were all nice we'd all believe
in the tooth fairy.
