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The same person announcing in this blog post that Cisco is "doing evil" and that it's not true that "Open systems and networks aren't always better for consumer

The same person announcing in this blog post that Cisco is "doing evil" and that it's not true that "Open systems and networks aren't always better for consumers" is the person who wrote this blog post last month: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4386 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4386 wherein he described how he's not at all like RMS, because RMS frames his advocacy "as a moral crusade" and because "his rhetoric and his thinking became dominated by terms like 'evil'" and RMS doesn't use "pragmatic argument about engineering practices and outcomes". I think ESR is really telling us that he wishes we'd all start listening to him tell us about how we should stop doing evil things instead of listening to RMS do the same.

praptak 14y ago
What I see in this case is evidence that RMS is not as deluded as his opponents paint him to be. This case shows that "evil", "good", "moral" aren't some vague abstract concepts that only matter to graybeard philosophers. You might think they are somehow detached from "practices and outcomes". Until Cisco bricks your router and holds it hostage until you sign off your privacy rights. Seriously, if I heard RMS rant about "what if Cisco bricks your router to force you to bend over" I'd wave him off as being unrealistic and exaggerating beyond common sense. Not anymore.