"Let them offer and we'll accept. We don't have to
change what we're doing to get them to help us. You can
take a single step towards a goal, then another and
then more and more and you'll actually reach your goal.
Or, you can take a half measure that means you don't
ever take another step and you'll never get there."
Even before the LinuxWorld show, however, Stallman was
showing an increased willingness to alienate his more
conciliatory peers. A few months after the Freeware
Summit, O'Reilly hosted its second annual Perl
Conference. This time around, Stallman was in
attendance. During a panel discussion lauding IBM's
decision to employ the free software Apache web server
in its commercial offerings, Stallman, taking advantage
of an audience microphone, disrupted the proceedings
with a tirade against panelist John Ousterhout, creator
of the Tcl scripting language. Stallman branded
Ousterhout a "parasite" on the free software community
for marketing a proprietary version of Tcl via
Ousterhout's startup company, Scriptics.
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