Who is Richard M. Stallman and what is his importance in life? and why do we want to hear him talk if he is anal about dumb stuff? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Victor Odhner" To: Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:31 AM Subject: Re: RMS (again) | Matt Alexander wrote: | > Well, I'll only be attending if the official name of the group is | > GNU/X11/Mozilla/Apache/Matt_is_cool/I_like_donuts/Linux. | > ~Matt | | Thanks, Matt. | | I was trying to think of a way to say that ... | | I, for one, have met the guy once. That was | educational. I don't need to meet him again. | | To his issue, I'd be open to calling our group | something related to open source software -- | we also support GNU, BSD, X11, Mozilla, etc. -- | but Mr. Stallman wouldn't like that either since | not all of "etc" is "Free Software". | | The only way around may be to set up an informal | valleywide "GNU Users Group" dedicated to hosting | speeches by Richard M. Stallman. | | Vic | | Kirt Karl wrote: | > [Stallman] doesn't want the event to be in any way | > associated with a Linux users group (only if the | > official name of the group is GNU/Linux). | ________________________________________________ | See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. | | PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us | http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss