mcb, inc. wrote:

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> Watching the latest flame war, I can't help thinking that as

> founders of their respective projects Theo and RMS are trapped

> in a jail of rigid consistency and absolutism demanded by

> children and utopians.

Well, yes and no.

Theo's absolutism has kept OpenBSD pretty much the last

blob-free OS in the Free Software world.
RMS's absolutism has kept alive an ideal that launched

the mainstream open source movement.
So it's not non-functional. It's emotionally hard on the

individuals concerned, and often emotionally hard on

us who bask in the reflected glow of these geniuses :-).

But it  all seems to work out in practice. Has for a cuple

of decades now, give or take a few years.
--

Jack J. Woehr

Director of Development

Absolute Performance, Inc.

jwoehr@absolute-performance.com

303-443-7000 ext. 527