The Silent Woman

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> From: Jim Kuzdrall <gnhlug at intrel.com>
> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 10:05:17 -0400

>     Some times I wonder if you are just the Internet representative of 
> 30 brilliant software guys who standby in a secret room waiting for a 
> problem to pounce on.  It seems like too much detail to carry around in 
> one head.  (Be careful.  A guy in Russia learned too much and his head 

Knowing a lot does not make you "brilliant".  Intelligence does that.

>     I like your clear, stepwise analytic approach too.  Too bad we can't 
> make you into an electronic or mechanical engineer.  They are 
> disappearing fast with no American replacements - well we are producing 
> people with degrees, but they are nowhere near equipped to do 
> engineering.

We (Americans) don't need more people with degrees.  We don't need
people who know more stuff.  We need more people with wisdom.

Linus, for example, falls into "engineer" category.  RMS, by contrast,
falls into the "wise" category.  Without RMS the GNU tools, the GPL,
Linux, and probably FOSS in general would never have come to exist.