Ted Kazinski of free software

[Arun Sharma <arun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Get some pop corn and read this entertaining thread:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+current/freebsd-advocacy

Especially, the part in which Terry Lambert calls RMS, the Ted Kazinski
of free software. The following mail from RMS may be instructive in 
understanding his thought process.

	-Arun

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 08:59:32 -0700 (MST)
From: Richard Stallman <rms@xxxxxxx>
To: s337240@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: java backend

If it is possible to compile languages such as C into Java byte codes,
I see a great danger.  The danger is that people will use Java byte
codes to hook GCC up to proprietary back ends and proprietary front
ends.  They could also generate Java byte codes, run a proprietary
optimizer, and feed the result back into GCC.  In effect, the support
for Java byte codes would undermine the goals of the GPL.

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