David Kastrup wrote:
> Pete Bessman <ninjadroid@email-addr-hidden> writes:
>
>
>> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:06 +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Pete complains that maybe he has listened too much to Stallman. I am
>>> afraid if he did, he did not understand too much. Stallman is not a
>>> person who promises superior quality of free software: that would be
>>> the panacea of the "Open Software" camp. Stallman says that he
>>> refuses to use non-free software for ethical reasons.
>>>
>> I know what he stands for, I just don't agree with it anymore. I think
>> it's illogical, and I think my subconcious always rejected it, and as a
>> response to this psychological discomfort, I think I developed a knee-
>> jerk "sucks" response to proprietary software.
>>
>> It's what psychologists call projection. When confronted with a
>> shortcoming in yourself, you project that same shortcoming onto others
>> so you don't feel like it's totally yours to deal with. You think OSS
>> has UI issues? You should see windows! You think dependency hell
>> sucks? Well go check out DLL hell! Etc.
>>
>> Basically, after years of forcing myself to accept a dogma that, upon
>> closer inspection, I think is a bunch of baloney, I have a lot of poison
>> in my brain that I need to remove so that I can think clearly, calmly,
>> and rationally. There are some ex-communists in the libertarian circles
>> in which I tread, and they have the same kind of problem WRT Marx and
>> communist ideology. And current communists are engaging in projection
>> and the like on an awe-inspiring scale.
>>
>> BTW, this isn't meant to equate OSS with communism. I just want to
>> drive home the point that I did not misinterpret one iota of the
>> Stallman verse --- I'm just tossing it in the trash bin along with
>> my Torah.
>>
>
> Well, what you theatrically toss has not been Stallman's invention at
> all. I recommend you search for another scapegoat. He never promised
> you a Rosegarden.
>
>
WTF are you smoking? I used to believe in the GNU philosophy, now I
don't. Is my metaphor of tossing it in the trashcan somehow
unacceptable? And what earthly thing does RMS have to do with Rosegarden?
-Pete
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