<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">It's from November, but it's still new if you've never seen it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
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<br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">I fully agree with the below review of the article, which may recall for some the UofT meeting many years ago that he walked out from when attendees wouldn't conform to his many naming protocols (to him there's not such thing as a "Linux system", only a "Linux-based GNU system"). He wouldn't even exchange emails with LPI unless it changed its name.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I've known RMS for, well, a very, very long time. There are points on<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>which we agree, and many points on which we do not -- we've had and<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>have a number of serious long-term and shorter-term disagreements. His<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>embrace of Julian Assange is difficult to forgive, but our continuing<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>communications are cordial. Fundamentally though, my foundational<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>disagreement with Richard relates to his "religious" fervor. For he<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>does tend to elevate his views to the status of "my way or the highway"<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>technological spiritualism. My view is that the sort of absolutism<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>that is the hallmark of Richard's philosophy is not particularly<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>helpful in the modern world in any contexts -- and in fact has often<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>been damaging to civilization throughout history. Compromise and an<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>acceptance of practical considerations are crucial to cooperation and<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>advancement in human societies, and we've seen all too often that<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>absolutist views can have very dark outcomes even with the best of<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>underlying intentions. All that said, Richard is a nice guy, and I'm<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);display:inline"> </div>glad that Psychology Today has never done a profile on me.</blockquote>
</div><br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)">I've had more than my share of encounters with him, which have been personally pleasant but rhetorically and logically insufferable.</div></div><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch</div><div style="text-align:left">Toronto, Canada</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Em: evan at telly dot org</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Sk: evanleibovitch</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Tw: el56<br></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>
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