[PLUG-TALK] McNealy, Open Source, and President Obama

Ronald Chmara ronabop at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 04:10:04 UTC 2009


On Jan 23, 2009, at 7:12 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Andrew Becherer wrote:
>
>> No. RMS is trusted by the free software community. He is not  
>> trusted by
>> the opensource community.
>
> Andrew,
>
>    I was being facetious, but neglected the smiley emoticon.
>
>    How about Eric S. Raymond? I've not read much about him lately,  
> but he did
> make a big noise with his paper, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar."

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-06-28-023-10-NW-SM

According to this, one might even say ESR is is trusted by the open  
source community, but not by the free software community. ;)

-Bop



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