RE: tlug: TLUG home page top 20

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com> writes:

    Jonathan> I guess these hit counts are a good indicator of their
    Jonathan> relative popularity ;-)

    >>> 199 http://www.twics.com/~tlug/linus.html

    >>> 43 http://www.twics.com/~tlug/rms.html

If Stallman wasn't rather Leninist in his approach to free software,
there probably would be a Linux, but I rather doubt there would be a
Linux Phenomenon.  Linus is a nice guy and all, but I doubt he would
have come up with a lawyer-proof Copyleft.

Stallman's Leninism has probably outlived its usefulness.  But the
fact that people don't want to know what he has to say more likely
means they don't really know who he is than that he's unpopular.
Stallman's opinions are important to me, even when expressed as a
rant, because (1) they go against the popular wisdom (the warm fuzzy
approach that Linus Torvalds epitomizes) and even more so because (2)
they go against the conventional wisdom of economics.  I don't know
why free software works as well as it does, and that's an affront to
my professionalism.  The Collected Ravings of Richard Stallman is a
good place to start researching.  ;-)

I'm in ATLANTIC CITY riding in a comfortable ROLLING CHAIR...

Thanks, Zippy.  I really think all the TLUGgers needed to know that.
Now go back to sleep.

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