[lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou

[Tayssir John Gabbour]

On 1/23/07, Tayssir John Gabbour <tayssir.john at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, do you consider Stallman to be a purist, in the
> sense you discuss? Because he's often regarded as a purist in the tech
> world. (Tim O'Reilly, the well-known book publisher, called him George
> Bernard Shaw's "unreasonable man", the sort of person upon whom all
> progress depends.)

And incidentally, Stallman writes things like (on his excellent
political newsfeed):

"Please don't accept the invitation to post your statements of Atheism
(or anything) on YouTube.com. That site is designed so as to require
proprietary software (the Flash player) in order to view anything. If
you want to post a video, post an Ogg Theora file on your own site."
<http://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-nov-feb.html>

Tayssir