<div dir="ltr"><div>grrrr... I was looking forward to this.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm getting a little tired of people conveniently throwing away someone else's life work because of a few alleged discrepancies...  RMS brought the Open Source world to where it is today; he at least deserves credit for that.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 15:29, Chris Frey <<a href="mailto:cdfrey@foursquare.net">cdfrey@foursquare.net</a>> wrote:<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 don't know what the controversy was, but the website says the talk<br>
was cancelled.<br>
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- Chris<br>
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 02:15:30PM -0500, Jason Eckert wrote:<br>
> I followed the RMS controversy when it happened, and to be honest, I'm a<br>
> little surprised UW asked him to present as a result given today's<br>
> academic climate.<br>
> However, I think it's incredibly important that students who are entering<br>
> computer science hear RMS's views on free software, which is why I think<br>
> they invited him to talk. Without his radical free software viewpoint, it's<br>
> difficult to put the spectrum of open source licensing in perspective.<br>
> <br>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 10:28 AM <<a href="mailto:tomg@sentex.ca" target="_blank">tomg@sentex.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > Quoting Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org" target="_blank">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>>:<br>
> ><br>
> > > I am a little surprised by this, but oh well.<br>
> ><br>
> > RMS seems like a good guy to me.<br>
> ><br>
> > Tom<br>
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