this cracked me up...

I saw this at the end of the month-long OpenBSD vs. RMS thread that ran on the misc list at OpenBSD. It was a befuddling and bizarre sort of flamefest. Basically, my take is that the OpenBSD folks suffer from some kind of stunted emotional development: Of course, RMS was incredibly zen and Ghandi-like. He was in fact in India when it took place. Now on to the wacky quote that kind of said it all for me:


Emacs/XEmacs is an excellent Microsoft Operating system shell to run.
Manage your files and browse the web.

It is released under the GPL (general public license).
Running a program on Windows is not encouraging the use of Windows.
Rather it is actually encouraging people to use Windows, you see. That's
not the same thing.

People publish screenshots of Emacs running on MS Windows and post them
on the internet, and this is the enemy of your freedom. It shows how
excellent XEmacs/Emacs run on Windows so that they don't even have to
run gNewSense.

When the dog wags his tail, the tail actually is wagging his dog. And
when the tail wags the dog, the dog is actually wagging the tail. Not
the other way around.

Oranges are free, grapefruits are not.
Oranges are free, grapefruits are not.
Oranges are free, grapefruits are not.

L505