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RMS Accused Of Attempting Glibc Hostile Takeover

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the things-are-never-dull dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Thought Police by ChaosDiscord · · Score: 4, Funny

    Freedom of speech includes the freedom to complain loudly about other's speech. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to be as anal and vitrolic as you want. So what's the problem?

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  2. Re:Thought Police by Amon+Re · · Score: 5, Funny

    I will probably be the only here to defend RMS, but I totally agree with Linux being called GNU/Linux when talking about an entire distribution instead of just the kernel. You are ignoring the work of a lot of developers by just calling it Linux. And I know people will say "We should call it Xfree86/BSD/GNU/Linux then." Well Xfree86 and a lot of the BSD code isn't needed at all to get an operating system up and running. GNU and Linux represent the core that is needed.

  3. Re:Stallman.... by sharkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...rename itself to the Canberra GNU/Linux Users Group. This did not go down well.

    But then you could call yourselves "C-GLUG", and make beer a staple part of your group.

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  4. Changing the GNU icon in /. by Guppy06 · · Score: 4, Funny
    If we have Gates/Borg pic as the icon for MS, why not modify a pic of Stallman for the GNU icon? Maybe put a fuzzy hat on his head and give him a Stalin-esque mustache. Or maybe something inspired by C&C: Red Alert.


    OK, now I'm thinking about using that Hell March tune from the game as the start-up sound in Gnome...

  5. Re:"Richard Stallman, Principal developer of 'Linu by alienmole · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah, RMS only developed the bits that suck. The cool stuff was developed by some Finnish guy.

  6. Maybe they could compromise by Angelwrath · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Stallman wants proper credit given to GNU/Linux, and he contributed so much to GNU, I say we combine Stallman and Linux to give both central figures credit to the OS.

    We will now call it "Stallinux".

    D'OH!