On Wednesday October 22 2008 10:03:16 am Mike Miller wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Joshua Radke wrote: > > I've read tons of philosophical summaries from the FSF, the Open Source > > Initiative, and various other sources, which left me a bit confused. I > > was most impressed with Richard Stallman's clarity, and would recommend > > one of his talks to anybody interested in understanding the FSF's > > position. > > Stallman had no notes and no slides, but he spoke for about two hours and > I don't think he said "umm" even once. It was pretty amazing if you think > about it. It was so well organized that a transcript could probably be > published as a book chapter with almost no editing. He obviously gets a > lot of practice! > > I took a lot of notes (almost 6 pages) and wrote down some verbatim > quotes. I'll post a long summary of the talk and quotes later. I would very much appreciate this. I tried to begin to take notes, but gave up after about twenty minutes. Which impressed me in itself, because damn few people can lecture faster than I can type. -p. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081022/0bbcbfb1/attachment.htm