Re: bias...

"Deven T. Corzine" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Marco Pietrobono wrote:
> 
> > > If the profession vanishes because there's no longer a need for it, then so
> > > be it.  If it gets eviscerated because of Stallman's Communist tendencies,
> > > that's something else altogether, and cause for concern...
> >
> >   so much for the "unbiased" view...
> >
> >   bye,
> >
> > /pietrobo (sorry, he has called for it...)
> 
> I said I began unbiased with respect to the dispute between Transgaming and
> the Wine project.  (Although I'm starting to form an opinion now after all
> this discussion.)  I've had YEARS to form an opinion on Stallman.  In fact,
> my opinion of him has shifted considerably over the years.  There was a
> time when I admired him and fully supported his goals and methods, now I'm
> more ambivalent.  I still admire some things about him (like his unstinting
> dedication to his cause, year after year), and in other ways I'm extremely
> disappointed in him (like his obstinate closemindedness on issues once he
> makes an initial decision)...

What is so biased about the statement anyway?  That's like saying Castro
is a communist.  It is a truism.   Does anyone think he has capitalist 
tendencies?  From yahoo:
Communism:
     NOUN:
         1. A theoretical economic system characterized by the
            collective ownership of property and by the
            organization of labor for the common advantage of all
            members. 

And as propriatary applications *cannot* exist on a GPLed OS + libs, it wouldn't
be right to call GPL modeled on socialist doctrine, as socialism (as I understand it)
still accepts private property.

Calling a spade a spade is not bias.  I actually hold roughly the same opinion of rms
too...

-r