[ale] Supporters of O'Reilly and other butthead Imbeciles

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Thursday 17 October 2002 07:06 am, cfowler wrote:
> The problem with RMS is that he needs to get a real job.  One that
> depends on the revenue generated by software sales to make his
> paycheck.  His views on all software should be free are a little too
> strong for me.

Isn't that exactly what he did?  He made a job for himself writing free 
software.  People that liked the software would pay do get printed 
documentation, or the entire distribution on tape.  And he made a 
living at it.  Later he got a genius grant, of course, but he did 
exactly what you want him to do.

His views are stronger than mine, but give him credit.  He believes in 
something strongly enough that he did bet his livelyhood on it--and 
won!

--Michael

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