> From:
owner-misc@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-misc@openbsd.org]
> On Behalf Of Richard Stallman
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:50 PM
> To: Paul de Weerd
> Cc: hans@stare.cz;
misc@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Real men don't attack straw men
>
> | I don't recommend Torvalds' version of Linux. The
> versions of Linux
> | in Ututo and gNewSense, which I recommend, do not have
> the blobs.
>
> Interesting, these linux distributions.
>
> They are GNU/Linux distributions. (See
>
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html.)
>
> They seem to be pretty new,
> what did you recommend before these came onto the scene ? None of
> these seemed to exist 8 years ago.
>
> Nothing! For many years there was no system distribution I
> could recommend to the public, and that is what I said.
>
> You are, however, being asked to explain how you combine
> these views
> with the support for several non-free OS'es within the copyleft
> software packages of emacs and gcc.
>
> Yes, after one person brought this up, many others repeated it (as if
> sheer volume of namecalling meant something). My message about this
> issue will go out in the same batch as this message.
>
> One person asked why it was "hard" for me to answer this question.
> It wasn't hard for me to respond, but it would have been impossible
> to respond quickly. I have to sleep, you know. And since I review
> my messages before actually sending them, I don't send mail quickly.
>
> It usually takes 12 to 24 hours from when a message is sent to when I
> send a response. Plenty of opportunity--for those who seek one--to
> claim that my silence proves I have no comeback.
