RMS or ESR?
This evening (well, really yesterday evening, it being 1:42am), I was able to attend a talk by Eric Raymond. Eric is in Cape Town to present a talk at SAICSIT-2000 on Thursday morning. Our local Linux User Group, CLUG, met him at the airport, dragged him around to see Cape Town's sights (that was the plan, last I heard) and then brought him to UCT for the meeting.
I enjoyed it thoroughly! He's a pretty good speaker and what he said made a lot of sense. Not having been to a talk by Richard Stallman on Free Software, I can't definitively say whether I am an RMS or ESR person. But! My current leaning is very much towards ESR. He has a practicality to his viewpoint that, quite frankly, RMS lacks. And it appeals to me.
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