Comments on: Miguel de Icaza “is Basically a Traitor to the Free Software Community,” Says Richard Stallman http://techrights.org/2009/09/21/rms-on-miguel-de-icaza/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Needs Sunlight http://techrights.org/2009/09/21/rms-on-miguel-de-icaza/comment-page-1/#comment-73538 Needs Sunlight Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:25:55 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=18722#comment-73538 RMS puts it more mildly and politely than de Icaza's actions warrant. He also puts it into too narrow a scope. Free and Open Source Software is essential to maintain US national sovereignty. And as we see from insightful and eloquent explanations from Peru and many, many other countries, it is essential for national sovereignty everywhere. So de Icaza's actions are those of a traitor to a much larger group than the Free Software community. He is inciting people in many countries to undermine and work against their own people and their own government. Free and Open Source Software, along with Open Standards, is essential for global trade. Markets will stagnate or balkanize without them. So, though RMS is putting the issue mildly and only in a narrow scope, the problem presented by de Icaza and the other wannabee-nazgûl is larger and more severe than that. RMS puts it more mildly and politely than de Icaza’s actions warrant. He also puts it into too narrow a scope.

Free and Open Source Software is essential to maintain US national sovereignty. And as we see from insightful and eloquent explanations from Peru and many, many other countries, it is essential for national sovereignty everywhere. So de Icaza’s actions are those of a traitor to a much larger group than the Free Software community. He is inciting people in many countries to undermine and work against their own people and their own government.

Free and Open Source Software, along with Open Standards, is essential for global trade. Markets will stagnate or balkanize without them.

So, though RMS is putting the issue mildly and only in a narrow scope, the problem presented by de Icaza and the other wannabee-nazgûl is larger and more severe than that.

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