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Re: Irony
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: hch at infradead dot org, manfredh at redhat dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, rms at gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:51:15 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Irony
> RMS must understand that his opinion is not the only one in the world,
> and although he's free to aplain his opinion again and again until
> half of the world is annoyed he must respect that. In this case he's of
>
> course free to just give back the award if he thinks it's so grossly
> misnamed.
Once again, the point is to use the opportunity of this award to explain
a couple of important points in an appropriate manner. No one is demanding
anything here, just trying to make sure that people understand these two
very important points. They may or may not agree, but in my experience
a lot of people simply don't understand. I can't tell you how many people
I meet who don't understand the (very important, including important to
our commercial customers) difference between open source and Free Software.
By the way, I always like to follow the convention of capitalizing Free
Software (it is the same kind of distinction that is made in
Catholic Church vs catholic church -- Episopaleans proclaim their
belief in the latter, but certainly not the former every sunday morning :-)