Re: Real men don't attack straw men

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From: Richard Stallman
Date: Thursday, January 3, 2008 - 10:29 pm

> In addition, I thought that OpenSolaris was just a kernel, but it
    > looks like the question had in mind a whole system.  This
    > miscommunication has the effect of making my statement appear to be an
    > endorsement of a system.

    Huh?  OpenSolaris is just a kernel

That's what I thought.  It _is_ free software, what there is of it.
But it isn't a usable solution.  That's what I meant at the time.

    Someone like you is not allowed to spread mistruths like this in the
    media.

"Spread mistruths" is a distorted way to describe a couple of
misunderstandings.  And as far as I know there is no way to forbid
anyone to do that.  If I knew a way, I would do it.

    Since you did it three times so rapidly, I am calling you a liar.

Mistakes are not lies.  And these mistakes were misunderstandings
anyway.

      And
    since you refuse to undo your commercial support in Emacs and GCC, I
    am going to call you a hypocrite.

I'm following the same principles that I apply to others.
I've explained both these principles and my actions; the readers
can judge all aspects for themselves.
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Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Marco Peereboom, (Sun Dec 30, 7:14 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Richard Stallman, (Mon Dec 31, 3:30 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men , Theo de Raadt, (Mon Dec 31, 3:58 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Marco Peereboom, (Mon Dec 31, 5:24 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Richard Stallman, (Tue Jan 1, 2:24 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men , Theo de Raadt, (Tue Jan 1, 2:43 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Marco Peereboom, (Tue Jan 1, 2:45 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Siju George, (Wed Jan 2, 1:05 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Richard Stallman, (Wed Jan 2, 2:54 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men , Theo de Raadt, (Wed Jan 2, 11:02 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Sunnz, (Wed Jan 2, 10:16 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Richard Stallman, (Thu Jan 3, 2:50 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Mayuresh Kathe, (Thu Jan 3, 7:49 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra, (Thu Jan 3, 8:02 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Allie D., (Thu Jan 3, 8:05 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Siju George, (Thu Jan 3, 8:30 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Michael Schmidt, (Thu Jan 3, 8:57 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, dereck, (Thu Jan 3, 9:18 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Ruben Gonzalez Arnau, (Thu Jan 3, 9:58 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Siju George, (Thu Jan 3, 10:55 am)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Marco Peereboom, (Thu Jan 3, 12:19 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Gregg Reynolds, (Thu Jan 3, 1:00 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Richard Stallman, (Thu Jan 3, 10:27 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Richard Stallman, (Thu Jan 3, 10:29 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Amarendra Godbole, (Thu Jan 3, 11:03 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men , Theo de Raadt, (Thu Jan 3, 11:35 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men , Theo de Raadt, (Thu Jan 3, 11:36 pm)
Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Gregg Reynolds, (Fri Jan 4, 1:02 am)
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Re: Real men don't attack straw men, Richard Stallman, (Sun Jan 6, 1:09 am)
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