Re: More FSF hypocrisy

[David Kastrup]

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@1407.org> writes:

> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 09:27:34AM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@1407.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:46:40PM -0400, Hyman Rosen wrote:
>> 
>> > You know,
>> 
>> > There's only so much skill fine tuning you can do when you fight
>> > dolls.
>> 
>> > Rjack, Therekov, amicus something, and all those trolls will NEVER
>> > see this or that. Their sole purpose is to make people loose time
>> > answering them and to polute mailing lists.
>> 
>> I'm not quite convinced of that - I suspect that one of them in
>> particular got "caught out" by the GPL in the past, and hasn't
>> stopped bawling like a 7 year old how he's really right.  Another
>> stated some while back that being disparaging about GNU was his
>> hobby.
>> 
>> > They're paid for it.
>> 
>> Any particular reason you say that?
>
> I just can't believe a crazy person would be able to so relentelessly
> bother people in such elaborate ways for such a long time.

You've never been to school?  In pretty much every larger social group,
some people derive a sense of power and self-esteem from pettishly
picking on others.  Just because you are mostly confronted with civil
people does not mean that they are the only kind around.

-- 
David Kastrup