[NTLUG:Discuss] RMS's Speach

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:35:30 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Victor Brilon <victor at vail.net>  said:
> But he doesn't want Linux to be considered a GNU project since
> various Linux distributions use non-free software. Hell, the GNU
> people basically dropped their sponsorship of Debian Linux because
> the Debian people couldn't follow GNU's requirements for strictly
> free software. Don't know if you're familar with how stringent
> Debian's developers are, but either way that really is a statement
> on how focused (blinded?) RMS and the GNU organization are to their
> One True Goal(tm).

A mite extreme.  In effect, RMS seems reluctant to see anyone with
even faintly differing intent as being anything other than a raving
adversary.

Is there a bit of "historical revisionism" happening concerning Motif?

In more or less the same breath, he was very critical of both Motif
and of "not-free-Qt."  I don't remember him being so critical of Motif
in the past; there used to be the "apologia" that it was considered
acceptable to "use system libraries that come with the system," which
KDE proponents used as an excuse for saying that everything was OK.
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