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    SubjectRe: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently"
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    Hello Larry!

    Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:06:00 -0800, you wrote:

    > Please, just go away.

    An admirable proof of your respect for freedom and democracy: you don't
    agree with him, so you ask him to go away.

    > Nobody here buys what you are peddling.

    Speak for yourself.

    > Every time you post, someone follows up with "I used to respect and
    > admire the goals of the FSF and now I don't".

    Every time I read a message from Richard, I read a message from a
    reasonable person, who believe in higher things that just his own
    private interests, and who tries to promote freedom in a world where
    profit and buisness is more and more the only law. For that, I'm glad
    to read him, and I'll never be able to thank him enough.

    I never saw Richard using insults, personals attacks, or such attitude
    that you, defenders of non-free software tends to use. I always seen
    rationals, reasons, facts and his own personal convictions. I don't
    always agree with him, but even if I don't agree with him, I'm happy
    to read what he has to say.

    Sure, I agree with most of his goals, and I'm fervent supporter of
    Free Software and of the Free Software Foundation. But this has no
    direct link with what I think of Richard. Even if you disagree with
    him, you should at least admit that he's an honest and reasonable
    person, trying to defend his views without falling back to personal
    attack or insults, and that his goal is to defend _us_, all of people
    who use computers. So, please stop your personnal attacks against him,
    and fight his arguments with other rational arguments if you disagree.
    This is the way democracy works. This is the way free and responsible
    people behave together.

    > You come back with "It's a shame that *others* have made you do
    > that" and apparently you are blind to the fact that it is *your
    > actions* which are making your supporters drop like flies.

    At least for me, it's by hearing to Richard's talk that I understood
    how important Free Software his, and that GNU/Linux is not just a
    cheap technical toy.

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