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RMS Accused Of Attempting Glibc Hostile Takeover
Bram Stolk sent a bit in thats been floating around lately where Ulrich Drepper, glibc maintainer announces the new version, and sidetracks to discuss an an RMS takeover attempt and how he feels about it. He raises several good points and I tend to agree with him. The FSF has done, and continues to do so much good, but more and more tension continues to grow between the extreme free speech faction and the more moderate folks. People have asked my opinion, and I'll just leave it by saying I don't prefix "Linux" with those 3 little letters and a slash even tho I've been asked.
Maybe some of the more rabid fans of RMS will open their eyes now and see him for the megalomaniac that he is. It isn't about free speech or free software at all to him, it's about control and forcing his opinions upon everyone he can get to.
would be for Richard Stalin to....disappear...in some way or another.
TODO: Something witty here...
Nice quote.
However, The point is really really clear.
Most people in the FSF are complete morons who
wave around a piece of paper and try to say that they get what decide.
Did our so called constitution prevent us from killing indians or beating black people? Do
corporate charters prevent hostile takeovers by the competition?
Does some reformer writing "we are all now free in perpetuity" make anything free?
No it does not.
I bet you microsoft could pay each of the FSF sc members 10,000 dollars and they would throw away their morals an assign all the GNU copyrights to microsoft. What's that you say? RMS is too nice for that. Think again.
That would be really really funny.
As far as I am concerned this just shows what the russians and the germans have learned the hard way. Put a man of ability behind any well fleshed out ideology and the ideology will quickly do his bidding. And, for all you small minded fools out there, the ideologies of communism and fascism held together a lot better than this GPL tripe which is basically written to preserve the personal power of some FSF old-timers..
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Well, you are obviously a troll, but I'm going to respond to you anyway. At least have the courage not to post anonymously next time you coward.
Stallman will not win. He will lose and he will lose big time. Anyone who wastes all his creative energies trying to make people think they B (GNU/linux) when they really meant A (linux) is a total twit. linux is UNIX, and RMS sure as hell didn't invent UNIX. Its the same reason we say Windows, and not cheap temporary workers/Windows. Who cares about the cheap temporary workers? Lets be a man and give the CEO (linus) all the credit. Why bother with the others. They can be replaced.
Basically some people tolerate him now, but that will change. Anyone who has to speak so loudly to say so little will find that entropy catches up with them really really fast.
GPL is his way of preventing people from freezing him out of projects he got kicked out of because he was too anti-social. Whose purpose does that serve again?
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Has anyone noticed the incredible Balkanization
that's going on here ??? What the hell is it about
Unix that makes all of its advocates want to engage
in a circular shooting match.
The free Unix world is fragmenting badly - if you
don't believe me just try to compile any major
(or minor for that matter) project from source.
Its time to move on and leave politics aside.
You can bitch all you want about this or that
license - if no one uses your code - who cares.
Back in the 80's while the major Unix vendors
were all trying to kill one another the rest
of us dreamed of a Unix we could actually afford
to run. Thanks to a kid from Finland that
dream was realized 10 years ago. I have been
using Linux since then and I hate to watch
while a bunch of idiots piss in everybodys
sandbox. Remember why we're all here - its
time to move on and get back to whats important.