Essay RFC delayed.

[NotZed]

Well, I hate to get down to this level, but it seems I've been beaten
to it.

Look who's got tickets on himself.

You really are such a joke Eric, maybe if you could see past your own
self-gratifying bull you'd be able to see that.  You may be surprised
to know that the sort of spirit that drives FREE SOFTWARE has been
around for much longer than you'd like to imagine.  I guess you


> Ean R . Schuessler <ean at novare.net>:
> >Come on Eric, laugh at yourself a little. I'm just yanking your chain
> >because you make yourself such an easy target.  
> 
> Yeah.  Well, when you pull my chain, don't complain because I bite.
> 
> > ps. Thats quite a check you are writing when you say you want *win* more than
> >     RMS _ever_ has.
> 
> I've known Richard since 1977.  He's very smart.  If he had ever wanted to
> win badly enough to face up to what was required and *do* it, I could
> have stayed a semi-obscure hacker happily coding away at home.
> 
> I would have preferred that outcome.  Turns out I'm *very* good at
> this bullshit; good enough that high-powered professional PR types
> call me a "natural" and I've seen at least one serious semiotic study
> of my propaganda technique (in Feed magazine late last year).  I've
> got the right cortical wiring, I guess -- but I don't *want* it.
> 
> Truly, I would have been a hell of a lot happier *not* discovering
> that I really am the kind of guy who can smile, and smile, and smile,
> and hand out soundbites carefully tuned for journalists with the
> attention span and IQ of toe fungus, and shake hands with fat-assed
> corporate predators who never had an original idea in their lives.
> 
> Dammit, all that shit should have been RMS's job.  I shouldn't have had
> to do it at all. So when anybody sounds like they're accusing me of
> selling out, I do tend to get a little testy.  Cope with it.
> -- 
> 		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>
> 
> "Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to
> take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic
> purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and
> sacrifice for that freedom."
> 	-- John F. Kennedy
>