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Re: [LUG] That stallmans a miserable git

 

On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:12:14 +0000
Gibbs <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Gibbs,

> I don't like Stallman when it comes to free software. He seems to push 
> it a bit too far and make the whole thing sound radical which kind of 

Indeed.  If it were anyone else, he'd probably be called a kook, given
the way he says some of what he says.

> backfires. He has a good point most of the time though and that can't
> be denied, just like on that article.

Agreed.  It seems that some people want the thin client model, without
the the thin clients, to be the way forward.  Forgetting that in the
past the clients were on a LAN and not a WAN, with the data still under
your control, on machines that you can easily get at to repair, and so
forth.

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