[504] in bugtraq
Re: Stallman and enable-local-variables in bugtraq-digest V1 #64
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Ladwig)
Tue Dec 13 19:50:03 1994
From: John Ladwig <jladwig@soils.umn.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 15:27:20 -0600
To: Timothy Newsham <newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu>
Cc: mitch@corp.cirrus.com (Mitch Wright), jladwig@soils.umn.edu,
bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Timothy Newsham's message <199412131924.NAA21070@catena.soils.umn.edu> of 13 December 1994
>>>>> On Tue, 13 Dec 1994 09:24:04 -1000 (HST), Timothy Newsham <newsham@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu> said:
>>
>> /* jladwig@soils.umn.edu writes: */
>>
>> >rms has said to me in mail that he "doesn't like security".
>> >Would that I (and others) had that luxury.
>> >
>> Just because someone doesn't "like" something, doesn't mean
>> they don't understand the need for it. It's a shame anyone
>> *has* to deal with it at all. I'd much rather *not have* to
>> type a password when su'ing, but the consequences of a
>> password-less root are obvious. I don't like having to take
>> the extra time to do it, but the alternative is even less
>> appealing.
Exactly.
TN> Its the mission of the FSF to wedge the philosophies of RMS
TN> upon everyone. This is accomplished through writing free
TN> software which becomes a defacto standard with dependancies on
TN> other free software which must become a defecto standard. I'm
TN> not saying they dont do a good job,
*Please* let's not get into a big public to-do over FSF philosophy and
politics. If you must vent about it, please feel free to do so with
me, or privately to others, and not on Bugtraq.
TN> but disreguarding other people's need for security just
TN> because RMS thinks society should be free and open is evil.
Personality aside, I thought it relevant to mention on Bugtraq the
philosophical viewpoint of the maintainer of several important
software packages.
-jml
