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I'd count that response as a win. An "I am skeptical" from RMS is really mild -- it's like he actually told you he'd take what you said into consideration. He
by jeandenis 15y ago
I'd count that response as a win. An "I am skeptical" from RMS is really mild -- it's like he actually told you he'd take what you said into consideration.
He'll be so very brutally honest if he disagrees with you.
- thaumaturgy 15y agoYeah, I read that the same way, too. I've seen correspondence from RMS to people that he really disagreed with. In RMS parlance, his response to Alexey sounds like a polite form of, "I'll think about that." Meh. The internet loves it some drama.
- nkassis 15y agoYeah I think it's important to remember that the guy is pretty busy, probably gets more than one of these kind of emails (probably on both sides) a week. Also some of the hardcore free software crowd is pretty radical and these are the kind of people he probably deals with the most thus that could shape his opinion of things.
- bhickey 15y agoHe could have at least had the good sense to say something like... I am skeptical of your position. I wrote an essay on a similar topic back in 1988, here's a link.
- Typhon 15y agoWhich essay are you referring to ?
- bhickey 15y agoI'm not referring to a particular essay. RMS has a large body of work. The point I'm making is that rather than dismiss a critic in that manner, he could have pointed him to something useful. If he'd done that, folks on HN wouldn't be grumbling about RMS being <something_bad>.