Re: Bertrand Meyer challenges some open-source assumptions.
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 05:33:49AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> It's not my problem. He is not me and he does not represent me in these
> or other interests. Claiming that everyone who supports free software
> feels this way is an obscene misrepresentation of not only myself, but
> anyone else excluding specifically him.
Well, now you see the problem. Meyer says it's not clear that Stallman,
Torvalds etc don't hold the same view. Nobody claims that everybody
who supports free software likes guns, but nobody is saying otherwise
either. And Raymond is a publicity engine for free software, so people
tend to think he represents most free software people. Quite reasonably so.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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