Re: Icon designer wanted (Aquamacs Emacs)

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> writes:

> It's too bad that you are determined to be narrow minded and utterly
> convinced of your rightness, and fail to be willing to look beyond
> your narrow world view.  It's also a poor reflection on gnu.org that
> you are determined to denigrate and insult anyone who has the
> temerity to disagree with you.

Try to find a single insult in my writing.

> Dogmatism is never pretty and almost never results in progress.
>
> Attitudes like yours do nothing but damage the free software
> movement and will result in it being little more than a footnote in
> computer history.

Unfortunately, history has time and again shown that only those that
bother about the pesky details of freedom will ultimately prevail with
it.

It is no accident that the "dogmatic" GPL covers about 90% of all free
software.  Richard Stallman is by far the most-denigrated person in
the whole free software movement, and it is not always easy or
pleasurable to work with him.  Yet the values he has been creating and
inspiring will carry on after him, and part of the reason is that he
always bothers about the additional 10 yards that it takes to ensure
this.

Wishful thinking alone never cuts it in the real world.

The ability to craft a pretty MacOSX-only thing from Emacs is part of
the value of free software.  Doing so exercises the freedom, but it
does nothing to sustain it.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum