Re: [OT] Re: configure script

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 13 Jun 2002, David Kastrup wrote:

> Open Software chose to distance itself from Free Software because RMS
> declares himself solely responsible for the ideological representation
> of every developer daring to contribute to Free Software, since in his
> opinion this constitutes an implicit contribution to the GNU project
> for which he is speaker.

Ideological agreements are not necessary for practical cooperation, 
assuming that there is some common (non-ideological) goal.  People who 
put ideological disagreements as prerequisite to work towards common 
goals simply demonstrate their basic inability to cooperate, because 
asking for agreement on ideological issues is in many cases asking for 
something impossible or illusory.