Re: Richard Stallman as Seen via the BBS Scene

According to Blue-Maned_Hawk  <[email protected]>:
>> is only used by communists like Richard Stallman who contribute little 
>> more than noise and friction to the open source community."
>
>​When you use the term "communist" against someone derogatorily, do you 
>use it with the literal definition term in mind, or do you use it as a 
>generic insult, regardless of its literal definition?

Stallman is the guy behind the Gnu Public License, which is intended
to force software to be freely sharable rather than sold so in that
sense I suppose you might argue that he's opposed to private property.
But as far as I know, that's just about software. As anyone familiar
with the history of computing knows, nobody even attempted to
copyright software until the mid 1960s, and the computer business did
just fine in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s.

So in this case I think it's "communist" in the sense of "poopyhead".
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