On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:04:34PM -0700, Michael K. Edwards wrote: > > Although I have no personal knowledge on the financial side, it > certainly looks to me like it has made them both rich men. Little > snippets in the public record -- Jim Blandy's comment at > http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html about RMS's "luxurious pad on the > fourth floor of posh NE43", the indications from Moglen's letter to > Vidomi and Fluendo's defense of GStreamer that he has ways of > extracting revenues from his role in the FSF, back-of-the-envelope > calculations involving the typical conference speaker fee -- suggest > to me that their tax records would make interesting reading. I could > be completely wrong; they could be scraping by on nominal salaries > from the FSF and Columbia University, plus a MacArthur fellowship here > and there; but it's enough for me to take their bizarre, > uncorroborated assertions about copyright law with a grain of salt.
That RMS gets paid for all the speeches he gives would indeed be news. I have first-hand knowledge that he follows invitations to speak about free software when provided free travel and lodging. Your claims are slanderous. I would suggest you to research better before making claims with such serious implications. iego -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
