Re: Talkback about flame wars being substitute for capitalistic cutthroat competition

The comments below look to me to be of nitpicking nature.
The important point of my original posting was that the religious wars
are the Free Software substitute to capitalist competition.

I suppose that KDE and Gnome both benefitted from the religious war
between them, and I wouldn't be surprised if vim turns out to have
learned from emacs what features need to be added.

                                            --- Omer


On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 20:08 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Sunday 17 August 2008, Omer Zak wrote:
> > The talkback
> > http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/top_4_internet_flame_wars_
> > +around_free_software#comment-76576
> 
> This URL is broken into two. Here's the correct, unbroken URL:
> 
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/top_4_internet_flame_wars_+around_free_software#comment-76576
> 
> And here's a shortened URL: http://xrl.us/onun9
> 
> > of an article about four famous Free Software related religious wars -
> > has, among other things, the following passage (quoted out of context):
> > "these debates (for want of a better word) propel the FSF Community
> > towards greater heights, replacing, in effect, competition between
> > companies"
> 
> That put aside, the author claims that Linus Torvalds belongs on the Emacs 
> side of the "Emacs vs. Vi" war, but in fact, he's using MicroEmacs. See:
> 
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/
> 
> I should also note that "Vim is Not Vi"<tm>, and has transcended above it. So 
> the "Emacs vs. Vi" holy war is old-school.
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