{"id":1601,"date":"2009-10-25T21:41:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T02:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2009-10-25T21:41:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T02:41:57","slug":"harish-pillay-and-brian-aker-debate-with-richard-stallman-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/25\/harish-pillay-and-brian-aker-debate-with-richard-stallman-part-2","title":{"rendered":"Harish Pillay and Brian Aker debate with Richard Stallman (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The attendees were not satisfied with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/25\/brian-aker-debates-with-richard-stallman\">first answer<\/a> RMS gave to Brian, that <a href=\"http:\/\/harishpillay.livejournal.com\/\">Harish Pillay<\/a> (Chief Technical Architect, Red Hat Singapore), chose to ask RMS what more he had to say, with regards to the letter he&#8217;d written. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=baH5DvJGUTk\">He answered quite candidly in this video<\/a>, which Brian chimed in for as well.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/baH5DvJGUTk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The back channel for all this was Twitter&#8230; Don&#8217;t hesitate to follow <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/harishpillay\">@harishpillay<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/brianaker\">@brianaker<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/piawaugh\">@piawaugh<\/a> or even <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/webmink\">@webmink<\/a> (Simon Phipps, while not at the event, was available on Twitter). 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