Marc MERLIN <marc_news@vasoftware.com> wrote:
Please don't start this advocaty here because I will tell you what I think of Stallman, his [INSULTS DELETED]
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The short version is: spare us the advocacy here, because I (and others) can give you counterpoints for each of your points, and it's completely off topic for this list.
Actually, as a matter of fact, even though I agree with Richard Stallman on most of his points about Free Software, most of the time I'm not much of an advocate.
However, when someone (like smaynard@agric.uwa.edu.au did) points out a perceived need for having Mailman available on an OS which is "user friendly" to "morons", then I think that it's quite appropriate to explain that we (the folks behind the GNU project) are interested in making our system more user-friendly from the perspective of all kinds of users, but in general we're not very interested in porting GNU packages so that they can be used on proprietary operating systems.
The whole point of the GNU project is to create an operating system that is completely Free Software. Therefore, it is only proper to inform users of GNU software that this is our goal.
Greetings, Norbert.
-- A founder of the http://DotGNU.org project and Steering Committee member Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland) Tel +41 1 972 20 59 Fax +41 1 972 20 69 http://norbert.ch List hosting with GNU Mailman on your own domain name http://cisto.com