Re: Stallman's world domination tour

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 12:05 PM 6/10/2002, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
> 
> >Gates is motivated by greed, Stallman by altruism or idealism.  
> 
> Stallman simply has a different kind of greed. It's an academician's
> kind of greed: a lust for control and power rather than money. It's
> not altruism at all. It's the spite of a whining child who demands 
> that every other child be forced to share his or her toys. 

Perhaps so.

> >Both are 
> >trying to take over the world and take choices AWAY from the rest of us.
> 
> Agree 100%.

GPL advocates will continue to claim that this isn't true solely because 
you can't (technically) be forced to use GPL code.  Neverthelsss, this is 
Stallman's goal.

> >It's truly ironic that Stallman speaks so much of freedom while trying to 
> >take freedom away from other programmers in pursuit of his utopian reality.
> 
> It's called "deception." 

Is it deliberate deception, or a manifestation of self-deception?

Deven