Re: looks like it's happening everywhere but the US.

True.  It's a philosophy but he treats it like a religion.  Those who do
not give away everything they do are considered "evil".  I actually
think that people who write software should make money from it.  Weird
point of view I guess ;-)


Jan


On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 09:45, Taran Rampersad wrote:
> Jan C. Depner wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 07:58, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Open source is not a religion for me, it just makes sense - in some
> >>>cases.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>  Why is it that when people talk of issues beyond treating software as a 
> >>product to be procured that the "religion" label comes up?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >	Ask Richard Stallman.
> >
> >  
> >
> Did RMS start a religion?  I wasn't aware of that. He has a philosophy 
> on software. Why do people confuse philosophy and religion?
> 
> Taran
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